Known For
Directing
Born
Feb 01, 1969
Place of Birth
Baneh, Kurdistan, Iran
Credits
20 titles
Bahman Ghobadi
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
Filmography
Trees are Watching
Director
The Four Walls
Writer
A Flag Without a Country
Director
Life on the Border
Producer
Words with Gods
Director
Mardan
Producer
Rhino Season
Director
About 111 Girls
Editor
No One Knows About Persian Cats
Bahman
All My Mothers
Consulting Producer
Turtles Can Fly
Director
Half Moon
Director
Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution
Himself
Daf
Director
Searching for Meaning: Jeonju Digital Project
Director
Marooned in Iraq
Director
A Time for Drunken Horses
Director
Blackboards
Rebwar
The Wind Will Carry Us
Life in Fog
Director