The Apple
After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two Iranian sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.
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Samira Makhmalbaf Director · Mohsen Makhmalbaf Writer Ebrahim Ghafori Cinematographer
United States release February 19, 1999 · Produced in Iran, France, Netherlands · Production Hubert Bals Fund, MK2 Productions
Production
Makhmalbaf Film House Productions
Production
Hubert Bals Fund
Production
MK2 Productions
Production
Iran · France · Netherlands
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Languages
Original title
سیب
Original language
Persian
Spoken on screen
Persian
Release dates
France · May 13, 1998
Premiere · Cannes Film Festival
France · May 27, 1998
Theatrical
United States · February 19, 1999
Limited theatrical
United States
September 30, 1998 · Premiere · New York Film Festival
February 20, 1999 · Premiere · Miami International Film Festival
Argentina
April 2, 1999 · Premiere · Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
April 29, 1999 · Theatrical
Brazil
January 8, 1999 · Theatrical
Canada
August 28, 1998 · Premiere · Montréal Film Festival
September 12, 1998 · Premiere · Toronto International Film Festival
Czechia
July 7, 2004 · Premiere · Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Denmark
November 26, 1999 · Theatrical
Germany
December 2, 1999 · Theatrical
Greece
November 17, 1998 · Premiere · Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Japan
January 30, 1999 · Limited theatrical · Tokyo
Netherlands
March 11, 1999 · Theatrical
New Zealand
July 17, 1999 · Premiere · Auckland Film Festival
Singapore
October 22, 2017 · Premiere · Perspectives Film Festival
Sweden
November 5, 1999 · Theatrical
Switzerland
August 15, 1998 · Premiere · Locarno International Film Festival
November 20, 1998 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
December 27, 1998 · Theatrical
August 23, 2004 · Physical · DVD
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