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
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): "
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 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...