Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
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...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
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...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
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...
Radio 4 - Today (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iranian filmmaker and overseas spokesman for Iranian presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, is in London to receive the 2009 Freedom to Create Prize. He was presented with the award last night and has dedicated it to Grand Ayatollah Montazeri who has become the spiritual leader of the Iranian opposition. Mr Makhmalbaf discusses the support for the opposition...
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Channel 4 News meets exiled Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf who is now a spokesman for the opposition in the country of his birth. Nicholas Glass reports.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
LONDON (Reuters) - Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf won the Freedom to Create Prize on Wednesday, and dedicated his award to leading cleric Hossein Ali Montazeri and the popular opposition movement he supports.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
LONDON (Reuters) - Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf won the Freedom to Create Prize on Wednesday, and dedicated his award to leading cleric Hossein Ali Montazeri and the popular opposition movement he supports.
Boulton (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... actor Tom Conti, who's swopping Shirley Valentine for the Virgin Mary. Plus the Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf(who is also a spokesman for former presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi) on why the Green Revolution is still going strong in his homeland. The former Lib Dem leader Sir Ming Campbell and the writer and broadcaster Clemency Burton-Hill will review the papers. Do...
War in Context (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
U.S. talks tougher on dealing with Iran By Jay Solomon, Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2009 The international spokesman for Iran’s main opposition movement called for President Barack Obama to increase his public support for Iranian democrats and significantly intensify financial pressure on Tehran’s elite military unit, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. Mohsen Makhmalbaf,...
Time (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... it has begun to hear answers from the Green Movement itself. The most public message has come from Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the exiled revolutionary filmmaker turned dissident who claims to speak on behalf of the Green Movement, during a Washington visit last week. He told U.S. officials and Iran experts Thursday that the military action would only strengthen the hard-line regime of President...
Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... a beautiful woman out on a date. Now, the opposition is . The most public message has come from Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the exiled revolutionary filmmaker turned dissident who claims to speak on behalf of the Green Movement, during a Washington visit last week. He told U.S. officials and Iran experts Thursday that the military action would only strengthen the hard-line regime of President...
The IFC Blog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... kids do -- global bicycling is symbolic of dire poverty. (Think "The Bicycle Thief" or Mohsen Makhmalbaf's "The Cyclist," about a man who agrees to ride a bicycle in a circle for a week to get the money for his wife's medical bills.) But why should this be? We live in a glorious new age of bicycling! It...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Resource Center for Nonviolence Movie Night Kandahar Monday, November 9th 7:30pm-9pm @ RCNV 515 Broadway, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Kandahar – Film, 85 min. Join the RCNV for a showing of “Kandahar,” and an informal discussion afterward. The film, directed in 2001 by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, is set in Afghanistan during Taliban rule. The movie follows a young Afghan-Canadian woman, played by Nelofer...
