Maysam Makhmalbaf

Maysam Mkhamlbaf works as his sister Samira's assistant. His film and camera follows her like an invisible eye.

Maysam Mkhamlbaf Maysam Mkhamlbaf works as his sister Samira's assistant. His film and camera follows her like an invisible eye. In other words he is constantly with his sister. When Samira made her first movie Apple or when she went to visit the two imprisoned girls or when she is occupied with changing the professional actor of the movie Blackboard with a non-professional actor and even when she is attending the Cannes Film Festival, his camera captured each and every action of Samira. His claim to fame is his How Samira Made the Blackboard is a video diary of how Samira as an infant in her mother's arms appearing in her father's film, went on to become an international filmmaker admired by many. FILMOGRAPHY How Samira Made the Blackboard