Bahman Ghobadi

Known for DirectingBorn 1969-02-01 (age 57)Baneh, Kurdistan, Iran

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Life on the Border

Turtles Can Fly

Daf

A Time for Drunken Horses

The Wind Will Carry Us

All My Mothers

Marooned in Iraq

No One Knows About Persian Cats

Blackboards

Half Moon

Life in Fog

Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution

Words with Gods

Rhino Season

Mardan

About 111 Girls

The Four Walls

A Flag Without a Country

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