Samira Makhmalbaf

The daughter of famed Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Samira Makhmalbaf has become -- at an astonishingly young age -- one of the world's most lauded directors in her own right. At the age of 18,...
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02/14/1980
Tehran, Iran
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