Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Iranian film director, writer, editor, and producer

Date of Birth: 29-May-1957

Place of Birth: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Profession: screenwriter, actor, writer, cinematographer, film director, film producer, novelist, film editor, essayist

Nationality: Iran

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Persian: ???? ????????, Mohsen Makhmalbaaf; born May 29, 1957) is an Iranian film director, writer, film editor, and producer.
He has made more than 20 feature films, won some 50 awards and been a juror in more than 15 major film festivals.
His award-winning films include Kandahar; his latest documentary is The Gardener and latest feature The President. Makhmalbaf's films have been widely presented at international film festivals in the past ten years.
The director belongs to the new wave movement of Iranian cinema.
Time selected Makhmalbaf's 2001 film Kandahar as one of the top 100 films of all time.
In 2006, he was a member of the Jury at the Venice Film Festival. Makhmalbaf left Iran in 2005 shortly after the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sixth President of Iran, and has lived in Paris since the events of the 2009 Iranian presidential election.