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The French Wild Bunch Company announced that the Two-Legged Horse Samira Makhmalbaf’s latest film will be shown in theaters throughout France simultaneously with the Cannes Film Festival. Previously, Two Legged Horse had won the Jury Grand Prize from Spain’s San Sebastian and best film...

 
Telcam Staff Company made a 110 minute film on Hana Makhmalbaf and her father. The film, on order by Japan’s NHK Television was filmed in Iran, Japan and France. Mrs. Mugi the director had previously made a 25 minute documentary featuring Hana Makhmalbaf titled “Smile of Asia” for NHK TV...

 
The film "Buddha collapsed out of shame" directed by Hana Makhmalbaf will be shown in 40 movie theaters across Japan starting April 18 under the title "The World of Children". Hana Makhmalbaf who traveled to Tokyo to hold the press conferences and a filmmaking workshop said: “This film...

 
Siberia’s Spirit of Fire International Film Festival which is held in February of every year, has invited Hana Makhmalbaf to attend as jury in its 7th festival. Hana who is traveling to Japan to hold press conferences on occasion of the screening of her film the "Buddha Collapsed out of...

 
Vesoul International Festival in France on February 10th 2009 while holding a tribute to and screening of 18 films by the Makhmalbaf Film House will be awarding the Golden Bicycle prize to Mohsen Makhmalbaf for creating valuable cinematic works. This will mark the one hundredth prize...

 
The NDTV Television Network in India concurrently with the closing of the Kerala Film Festival announced that it will distribute Samira Makhmalbaf’s films the Blackboard, At Five in the Afternoon and her latest film Two-Legged Horse in India as DVD format.

The said three films...

 
Samira Makhmalbaf will attend the 13th Kerala Film festival in India. This festival which is held every year from December 12-19 will focus on films from South America, Africa and Asia this year in its main competition section.

Also, a tribute will be paid to Samira Makhmalbaf...

 
Two Legged Horse, Samira Makhmalbaf’s latest film received the Special Mention Prize in Rome’s 9th Asian Films Festival for its originality as mentioned in the board of jury statement.

Two Legged Horse was screened three times in this festival which is held from November 15-23...

Poland’s 15th Festival of European Film Schools in its opening ceremony granted its special Golden Dinosaur prize to Mohsen Makhmalbaf for founding the Makhmalbaf Film School as an independent and creative approach in world cinema. The European Film Schools Festival which is held in Krakow this...

 
A tribute to Samira Makhmalbaf was held in the Women’s World Festival in Germany’s University city of Tuebingen with the screenings of her films Apple, the Blackboard, 11 September, How Samira Made the Blackboard (behind-the-scene of the Blackboard by Maysam Makhmalbaf) Joy of Madness (...

 
Buddha Collapsed out of Shame received three awards from Ukraine’s Molodist International Film festival.

Hana Makhmalbaf, the director of the feature film Buddha Collapsed out of Shame received the Molodist Film festival’s grand prize, the Golden Deer, awarded to the best film...

 
Samira Makhmalbaf from Iran together with juries from England, Germany, France and Brazil will attend the 32nd Sao Paolo International Film festival as jury. The board of juries of this festival officially began work with the holding of their first press conference on October 25th. Also...

 
Norway’s Oslo Films from the South Festival grants its first prize "The Silver Mirror" to Hana Makhmalbaf’s "The Buddha Collapsed out of Shame".

"Buddha…" also received 100,000 Kroners for its Norwegian distributor. The jury at the time of granting Hana’s award made stated that...