Name
Bahman Ghobadi
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1969-02-01 (57 years old)
Place of Birth
Baneh, Kurdistan, Iran
Biography
Bahman Ghobadi was born in 1969 in Baneh, in the province of Iranian Kurdistan, near the Iran-Iraq border. Shortly after graduating from the National Audiovisual School, he made his first short, immediately acclaimed by the local critics. One of these short films, "Life in Fog" (1999) is even considered as the most famous short ever made in Iran. This success allowed Bahman Ghobadi to make several feature films, the best known being his first, "A Time for Drunken Horses" (2000), the first Kurd film in the history of Iran. This film and all the the others made by Ghobadi were hits in the festival circuit, garnered dozens of awards but were little seen or not seen at all in his native country. His last movie to date, filmed without official permit, rapidly and feverishly, "No One Knows About Persian Cats" (2009) is a remarkable semi-documentary about underground indie music in Tehran.
Known For
7.1
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for...
7.8
Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. ...
5.4
Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Ir...
7.6
After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a...
6.8
Iranian musicians Negar and Ashkan look for band members to play at a London concert ... a...
6.7
Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the ...
7
During the war between Iran and Iraq, a group of Iranian Kurd musicians set off on an almo...
- 2000 Blackboards as Rebwar
- 2006 Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution as Himself
- 2009 No One Knows About Persian Cats as Bahman
- 1999 The Wind Will Carry Us
