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Bahman Ghobadi is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Assistant Director, Editor, Production Design and Music Iranien born on 1 february 1969 at Baneh (Iran)

Bahman Ghobadi

Bahman Ghobadi
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Nationality Iran
Birth 1 february 1969 (55 years) at Baneh (Iran)

Bahman Ghobadi (Persian: بهمن قبادی‎‎; Kurdish: به‌همه‌ن قوبادی / Behmen Qubadî) is an Iranian film director of Kurdish ethnicity. He was born on February 1, 1969 in Baneh, Kurdistan province. Ghobadi belongs to the "new wave" of Iranian cinema.

Biography

He was born in Baneh, a Kurdish small town in Kurdistan. His family moved to Sanandaj in 1981. Ghobadi received a Bachelor of Arts in film directing from Iran Broadcasting College. After a brief career in industrial photography, Ghobadi began making short 8 mm films. His documentary Life In Fog won numerous awards. Bahman Ghobadi was assistant director on Abbas Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us.

Bahman Ghobadi founded Mij Film in 2000, a company with the aim of production of films in Iran about its different ethnic groups. His first feature film was A Time for Drunken Horses (2000), the first Kurdish film produced in Iran. The film won the Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. His second feature was Marooned in Iraq (2002), which brought him the Gold Plaque from the Chicago International Film Festival. His third feature, Turtles Can Fly, followed in 2004, winning the Glass Bear and Peace Film Award at the Berlin International Film Festival and the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian International Film Festival.

In 2006, Ghobadi's Half Moon won the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. Iran's renowned actors Golshifteh Farahani, Hassan Poorshirazi and Hedyeh Tehrani acted in this movie. The music of the movie was made by Iran's musician Hossein Alizadeh. The film, which was a collaborative project by Iran, France, Austria and Iraq, was shot fully in Iranian Kurdistan. However, it narrates the story of a group of Iranian Kurdish musicians who would like to travel to Iraqi Kurdistan and organize a concert there.

In 2006, Index on Censorship gave Ghobadi an Index Film Award for making a significant contribution to freedom of expression through his film Turtles Can Fly.

In May 2009, his film No One Knows About Persian Cats won an Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize ex-aequo when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. This film chronicles the hardships facing young Iranian musicians seeking to evade censorship.

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Filmography of Bahman Ghobadi (12 films)

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Actor

No One Knows About Persian Cats, 1h41
Directed by Bahman Ghobadi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Hamed Behdad, Shervin Najafian, Bahman Ghobadi
Roles Bahman
Rating70% 3.547153.547153.547153.547153.54715
The film follows two young musicians (Ashkan and Negar) as they form a band and prepare to leave Iran shortly after being released from prison. The pair befriends a man named Nader (Hamed Behdad), an underground music enthusiast and producer who helps them travel around Tehran and its surrounding areas in order to meet other underground musicians possibly interested in forming a band and later leaving the country.
Blackboards, 1h25
Directed by Samira Makhmalbaf
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Action, Horror, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about education
Actors Bahman Ghobadi, Behnaz Jafari
Roles Rebwar
Rating67% 3.397333.397333.397333.397333.39733
À la suite d'un bombardement au Kurdistan iranien, des instituteurs errent de village en village à la recherche d'élèves.
The Wind Will Carry Us, 1h55
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Themes Philosophie, Poésie, Vieillesse
Actors Bahman Ghobadi
Rating73% 3.6972153.6972153.6972153.6972153.697215
Behzad, Keyvan, Ali and Jahan who are journalists but pretend to be production engineers arrive in a Kurdish village to document the locals' mourning rituals that anticipate the death of an old woman, but she remains alive. The main engineer is forced to slow down and appreciate the lifestyle of the village.

Director

Rhino Season, 1h28
Directed by Bahman Ghobadi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Thriller, Historical
Actors Monica Bellucci, Beren Saat, Behrouz Vossoughi, Yılmaz Erdoğan, Belçim Bilgin Erdoğan, Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan
Rating63% 3.198163.198163.198163.198163.19816
Sahel, un poète kurde vient de sortir de prison après 35 ans. Il tente de retrouver sa femme qui le croit mort.
No One Knows About Persian Cats, 1h41
Directed by Bahman Ghobadi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Hamed Behdad, Shervin Najafian, Bahman Ghobadi
Rating70% 3.547153.547153.547153.547153.54715
The film follows two young musicians (Ashkan and Negar) as they form a band and prepare to leave Iran shortly after being released from prison. The pair befriends a man named Nader (Hamed Behdad), an underground music enthusiast and producer who helps them travel around Tehran and its surrounding areas in order to meet other underground musicians possibly interested in forming a band and later leaving the country.
Half Moon
Half Moon (2006)
, 1h47
Directed by Bahman Ghobadi
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Actors Golshifteh Farahani, Hedieh Tehrani, Hasan Pourshirazi
Rating71% 3.5951353.5951353.5951353.5951353.595135
Mamo, an old Kurdish musician in the twilight of his life, plans to perform one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. The village's elderly warn him that as the moon becomes full, something awful would happen to him and urge him not to proceed with his plan. After several months of trying to overcome the red-tape, he begins a long and dangerous journey along with his sons. Along the way, the group picks up female singer Hesho who resides in a village of 1,334 exiled women singers. This adds to the complications of the trip as Hesho did not have authorization to go into Iraq. Despite all these obstacles, Mamo is determined to continue with his journey across the border.
Turtles Can Fly, 1h35
Directed by Bahman Ghobadi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes French war films, Films about children, Films about suicide, Political films
Rating79% 3.9976953.9976953.9976953.9976953.997695
The film is set in the Kurdish refugee camp on the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of the US invasion of Iraq. Thirteen-year-old Satellite (Soran Ebrahim) is known for his installation of dishes and antennae (for local villages who are looking for news of Saddam Hussein) and for his limited knowledge of English. He is the dynamic, but manipulative leader of the children, organizing the dangerous but necessary sweeping and clearing of the minefields. Many of these children are injured one way or the other, yet still maintain a boisterous prattle whenever possible, devoted to their work in spite of the vagaries of their life.
Marooned in Iraq, 1h48
Directed by Bahman Ghobadi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, War
Rating73% 3.692983.692983.692983.692983.69298
Mirza, a famous Kurdish musician, hears that his ex-wife Hanare is in trouble. He, accompanied by his two sons, embarks on an adventurous journey across the Iran-Iraq border to find her.
A Time for Drunken Horses, 1h20
Directed by Bahman Ghobadi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, War
Rating76% 3.847763.847763.847763.847763.84776
An Iranian Kurdish family is trying to survive after the death of its parents. Ayoub, the eldest boy in the family, becomes the head of the household and must do whatever work available to survive. Madi, Ayoub's handicapped brother, is in need of a medical operation. Ayoub goes to great lengths to collect money for the operation by smuggling truck tires with a group of Kurdish villagers near the Iran-Iraq border. Ayoub ultimately falls short of his intended goal and his uncle decides to marry off his sister in return for the groom's family financing Madi's operation on the Iraqi side of the border. When they arrive the mother of the groom refuses to accept Madi and agrees to give Ayoub and his uncle a mule as compensation. Ayoub decides to take the mule to Iraq where it is worth more, and sell it to pay for his brother's surgery. Some smugglers let him come along with him. They use mules to carry goods and feed them liquor allowing them to better survive the harsh mountain winter. But they are ambushed while heading to the border, and the horses are too drunk to carry on. Ayoub narrowly manages to escape, and the last shot is of him and his brother crossing the border.

Scriptwriter

Rhino Season, 1h28
Directed by Bahman Ghobadi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Thriller, Historical
Actors Monica Bellucci, Beren Saat, Behrouz Vossoughi, Yılmaz Erdoğan, Belçim Bilgin Erdoğan, Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan
Rating63% 3.198163.198163.198163.198163.19816
Sahel, un poète kurde vient de sortir de prison après 35 ans. Il tente de retrouver sa femme qui le croit mort.
No One Knows About Persian Cats, 1h41
Directed by Bahman Ghobadi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Hamed Behdad, Shervin Najafian, Bahman Ghobadi
Rating70% 3.547153.547153.547153.547153.54715
The film follows two young musicians (Ashkan and Negar) as they form a band and prepare to leave Iran shortly after being released from prison. The pair befriends a man named Nader (Hamed Behdad), an underground music enthusiast and producer who helps them travel around Tehran and its surrounding areas in order to meet other underground musicians possibly interested in forming a band and later leaving the country.