Marzieh Meshkini

• Name — Marzieh Meshkini • Native Name — مرضیه مشکینی • Born — 1969 • Birthplace — Tehran, Imperial State of Iran • Education — University of Tehran • Occupation — * Filmmaker • writer • Children — Hana Makhmalbaf • Years Active — 1996–present

Marzieh Meshkini was born in Tehran in 1969 and studied geology and biology at the University of Tehran. She is married to director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, whose first wife (Meshkini's sister Fatemeh, who died in a fire) is the mother to his two children Samira and Meysam. Marzieh Meshkini also had a daughter with Makhmalbaf, Hana. All members of the family are filmmakers and part of the Makhmalbaf Film House.

• Illustration — Meshkini at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema in 2009 Marzieh Meshkini studied cinema at the Makhmalbaf Film School, established as part of the Makhmalbaf Film House in the mid-1990s. She has worked on several films from the MFH platform, including serving as the assistant director on Samira Makhmalbaf's 1998 film, The Apple (Sib), and writing the script for Hana Makhmalbaf's first feature film, Buddha Collapsed out of Shame (Buda az Sharm foru Rikht, 2007). During the presidency of Mohammad Khatami, the relative openness in Iran allowed a number of women, including Meshkini, Samira Makhmalbaf, Rakhshan Banietemad and Mania Akbari, to be involved in all types of film: feature, documentary, video art, shorts, etc. Meshkini was thus part of a new wave of female directors who could finally see filmmaking as a legitimate career for women. In 2000, Meshkini became the first Iranian woman to win awards at the 57th Venice International Film Festival for her debut film, The Day I Became a Woman. After this, she continued to work on numerous films with the MFH in different capacities. She also directed the Afghanistan-set Stray Dogs (2004) and co-directed The Man Who Came with the Snow (2009).

• Illustration — Hana Makhmalbaf, Marziyeh Meshkini and Mohsen Makhmalbaf winning the Golden Cyclo at the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema in 2009 Similar to other prominent directors such as Abbas Kiarostami and Samira Makhmalbaf, Meshkini has positive views on the role of censorship in Iranian cinema. Since American films can not be shown in Tehran, Iranian filmmakers also cannot be influenced by them. This allows the Iranian film world to create a cinema of its own. Censorship forces filmmakers to approach their topics in a new way, and can therefore be a source of inspiration.[2] With The Day I Became a Woman, Meshkini is allegorically testing the limits and flexibility of the Iranian government's censorship rules, especially with regards to the restrictions imposed on the representation of women.

• Year — Title — Director — Script writer — Assistant Director — Cinematographer — Editor • 1998 — The Apple — ✔ • 2000 — Blackboards — ✔ • 2000 — The Day I Became a Woman — ✔ — ✔ • 2002 — 11'09"01 - September 11 — ✔ • 2002 — The Afghan Alphabet — ✔ • 2003 — At Five in the Afternoon — ✔ • 2004 — Stray Dogs — ✔ — ✔ • 2005 — Sex & Philosophy — ✔ • 2007 — Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame — ✔ • 2008 — Two-legged Horse — ✔ • 2009 — The Man Who Came with the Snow — ✔ • 2013 — Ongoing Smile — ✔ • 2014 — |The President — ✔ — ✔ • 2019 — Marghe and Her Mother — ✔

The authorities additionally record the heading Marziyeh Meshkini. Her recorded language was Persian. She married Mohsen Makhmalbaf. One child is recorded: Hana Makhmalbaf.