Bahman Ghobadi
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.
Turtles Can Fly
(Director)
Marooned in Iraq
(Director)
A Time for Drunken Horses
(Director)
Half Moon
(Director)
The Four Walls
(Producer)
The Four Walls
(Music)
The Four Walls
(Writer)
No One Knows About Persian Cats
(Director)
No One Knows About Persian Cats
(Screenplay)
No One Knows About Persian Cats
(Producer)
Rhino Season
(Director)
Words with Gods
(Director)
The Four Walls
(Director)
Searching for Meaning: Jeonju Digital Project
(Director)
Life in Fog
(Director)
Life in Fog
(Writer)
A Flag Without a Country
(Director)
Turtles Can Fly
(Producer)
Turtles Can Fly
(Production Design)
Life on the Border
(Producer)
Half Moon
(Art Direction)
Half Moon
(Producer)
Mardan
(Producer)
The Wind Will Carry Us
(Assistant Director)
All My Mothers
(Consulting Producer)
About 111 Girls
(Producer)
About 111 Girls
(Editor)
A Flag Without a Country
(Editor)
A Flag Without a Country
(Music)
Daf
(Director)
Rhino Season
(Writer)
Rhino Season
(Screenplay)
A Time for Drunken Horses
(Producer)
A Time for Drunken Horses
(Art Direction)
Words with Gods
(Screenplay)
Daf
(Screenplay)
A Time for Drunken Horses
(Screenplay)
A Flag Without a Country
(Screenplay)
Half Moon
(Screenplay)
Marooned in Iraq
(Screenplay)
No One Knows About Persian Cats
(Production Design)
Turtles Can Fly
(Screenplay)
Rhino Season
(Producer)
Marooned in Iraq
(Producer)
A Flag Without a Country
(Producer)
Rhino Season
(Production Design)