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Bahman Ghobadi
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 h…
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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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2026
Trees Are Watching
Movie Director
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2021
The Four Walls
Movie Writer
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2015
A Flag Without a Country
Movie Director
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2015
Life on the Border
Movie Producer
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2014
Words with Gods
Movie Director
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2014
Mardan
Movie Producer
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2012
Rhino Season
Movie Director
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2012
About 111 Girls
Movie Producer
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2009
No One Knows About Persian Cats
Movie Bahman
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2009
All My Mothers
Movie Consulting Producer
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2006
Half Moon
Movie Director
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2006
Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution
Movie Himself
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2004
Turtles Can Fly
Movie Director
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2003
Daf
Movie Director
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2003
Searching for Meaning: Jeonju Digital Project
Movie Director
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2002
Marooned in Iraq
Movie Director
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2000
A Time for Drunken Horses
Movie Director
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2000
Blackboards
Movie Rebwar
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1999
The Wind Will Carry Us
Movie
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1999
Life in Fog
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