Artdaily (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
LONDON.- Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the celebrated Iranian filmmaker and official overseas spokesman for 2009 Iranian presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, has won the 2009 Freedom to Create Prize . The only prize of its kind, the Freedom to Create Prize celebrates the use of the arts to drive change and build the foundations of creativity in broken societies. Bianca Jagger, Founder and Chair of the...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Iran's revolutionary guards should be subject to sanctions to force Tehran to curb its nuclear ambitions and respect democracy, the country's leading film-maker and unofficial spokesman for the opposition Green Movement has said. "If foreign governments deal only with the atomic bomb and forget about democracy and human rights in Iran, they will help dictatorship," Mohsen Makhmalbaf told...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Five months after the tumult of the Iranian presidential elections, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a leading spokesman for the opposition movment, is in London to receive the Freedom to Create prize. The internationally acclaimed director of Kandahar and Sex & Philosophy tells the Guardian's Middle East editor, Ian Black, about the need to link sanctions to human rights and democracy, and why any military...
Moderato (Free subscription) | 04/09/2009
Time magazine selected Makhmalbaf’s 2001 film, Kandahar, as one of top 100 films of all time. Posted in Art, Film, Movies, video, You Tube Tagged: Afghanistan, Art, Film, Kandahar, Mohsen Makhmalbaf
DIY Filmmaker Sujewa (Free subscription) | 25/06/2009
From Times' Lede blog : "this video appeal from Mohsen Makhmalbaf , the great Iranian filmmaker was recorded in Rome on Tuesday. In it, Mr. Makhmalbaf encouraged Iranians abroad to continue supporting the opposition (in Farsi with English subtitles): "
The Poor Mouth (Free subscription) | 23/06/2009
According to Mohsen Makhmalbaf film director and international spokesman for Mirhossein Mousavi the Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi is under 24-hour guard by secret police and no longer able to speak freely to supporters. "he has security agents, secret police with him all the time. He has to be careful what he says." He said in an interview with the Independent "The regime,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/06/2009
The man Iranians want as their leader has been silenced. This is what he wants you to know I have been given the responsibility of telling the world what is happening in Iran. The office of Mir Hossein Mousavi, who the Iranian people truly want as their leader, has asked me to do so. They have asked me to tell how Mousavi's headquarters was wrecked by plainclothes police officers. To tell how...
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