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.
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Movies (20)
Trees are Watching
2026 · Director, Writer, Producer
The Four Walls
2021 · Producer, Writer, Director, Original Music Composer
A Flag Without a Country
2015 · Director, Editor, Music, Screenplay, Producer
Life on the Border
2015 · Producer
Words with Gods
2014 · Director, Screenplay
Mardan
2014 · Producer
Rhino Season
2012 · Director, Writer, Screenplay, Producer, Production Design
About 111 Girls
2012 · Producer, Editor
No One Knows About Persian Cats
2009 · Bahman, Director, Screenplay, Producer, Production Design
All My Mothers
2009 · Consulting Producer
Turtles Can Fly
2006 · Director, Producer, Production Design, Screenplay
Half Moon
2006 · Director, Art Direction, Producer, Screenplay
Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution
2006 · Self
Daf
2003 · Director, Screenplay
Searching for Meaning: Jeonju Digital Project
2003 · Director
Marooned in Iraq
2002 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
A Time for Drunken Horses
2000 · Director, Producer, Art Direction, Screenplay
Blackboards
2000 · Rebwar
The Wind Will Carry Us
1999 · Assistant Director
Life in Fog
1999 · Director, Writer
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