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Bahman Ghobadi

Writer, Director, Producer, Actor, Composer, Editor, Additional CreditsBorn February 1, 1969 (56 years)
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

  • Turtles Can Fly
  • A Time for Drunken Horses
  • No One Knows About Persian Cats
  • Rhino Season
  • The Wind Will Carry Us
  • Half Moon
  • Marooned in Iraq
  • Blackboards
  • 111 Girls
  • Life on the Border

Filmography

2021
2015
A Flag Without a Country · as Screenplay
2014
Words with Gods · as Screenplay
2012
2012
2009
2006
Half Moon · as Screenplay
2004
Turtles Can Fly · as Screenplay
2002
Marooned in Iraq · as Screenplay
2000
A Time for Drunken Horses · as Screenplay

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