Bahman Ghobadi (b. 1969)

Alias:
Бахман Гобади
بەهمەنی قوبادی
바흐만 고바디

Birthplace:
Baneh, Kurdistan, Iran

Born:
February 1, 1969

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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Art Direction:
2000  A Time for Drunken Horses
2006  Half Moon

Assistant Director:
1999  The Wind Will Carry Us
2000  A Time for Drunken Horses
2006  Half Moon

Consulting Producer:
1999  The Wind Will Carry Us
2000  A Time for Drunken Horses
2006  Half Moon
2009  All My Mothers

Director:
1999  Life in Fog
1999  The Wind Will Carry Us
2000  A Time for Drunken Horses
2002  Marooned in Iraq
2003  Daf
2003  Searching for Meaning: Jeonju Digital Project
2005  Turtles Can Fly
2006  Half Moon
2009  All My Mothers
2009  No One Knows About Persian Cats
2012  Rhino Season
2014  Words with Gods
2015  A Flag Without a Country
2021  The Four Walls

Editor:
1999  Life in Fog
1999  The Wind Will Carry Us
2000  A Time for Drunken Horses
2002  Marooned in Iraq
2003  Daf
2003  Searching for Meaning: Jeonju Digital Project
2005  Turtles Can Fly
2006  Half Moon
2009  All My Mothers
2009  No One Knows About Persian Cats
2012  About 111 Girls
2012  Rhino Season
2014  Words with Gods
2015  A Flag Without a Country
2021  The Four Walls

Music:
1999  Life in Fog
1999  The Wind Will Carry Us
2000  A Time for Drunken Horses
2002  Marooned in Iraq
2003  Daf
2003  Searching for Meaning: Jeonju Digital Project
2005  Turtles Can Fly
2006  Half Moon
2009  All My Mothers
2009  No One Knows About Persian Cats
2012  About 111 Girls
2012  Rhino Season
2014  Words with Gods
2015  A Flag Without a Country
2021  The Four Walls

Producer:
1999  Life in Fog
1999  The Wind Will Carry Us
2000  A Time for Drunken Horses
2002  Marooned in Iraq
2003  Daf
2003  Searching for Meaning: Jeonju Digital Project
2005  Turtles Can Fly
2006  Half Moon
2009  All My Mothers
2009  No One Knows About Persian Cats
2012  About 111 Girls
2012  Rhino Season
2014  Mardan
2014  Words with Gods
2015  A Flag Without a Country
2015  Life on the Border
2021  The Four Walls

Production Design:
1999  Life in Fog
1999  The Wind Will Carry Us
2000  A Time for Drunken Horses
2002  Marooned in Iraq
2003  Daf
2003  Searching for Meaning: Jeonju Digital Project
2005  Turtles Can Fly
2006  Half Moon
2009  All My Mothers
2009  No One Knows About Persian Cats
2012  About 111 Girls
2012  Rhino Season
2014  Mardan
2014  Words with Gods
2015  A Flag Without a Country
2015  Life on the Border
2021  The Four Walls

Screenplay:
1999  Life in Fog
1999  The Wind Will Carry Us
2000  A Time for Drunken Horses
2002  Marooned in Iraq
2003  Daf
2003  Searching for Meaning: Jeonju Digital Project
2005  Turtles Can Fly
2006  Half Moon
2009  All My Mothers
2009  No One Knows About Persian Cats
2012  About 111 Girls
2012  Rhino Season
2014  Mardan
2014  Words with Gods
2015  A Flag Without a Country
2015  Life on the Border
2021  The Four Walls

Writer:
1999  Life in Fog
1999  The Wind Will Carry Us
2000  A Time for Drunken Horses
2002  Marooned in Iraq
2003  Daf
2003  Searching for Meaning: Jeonju Digital Project
2005  Turtles Can Fly
2006  Half Moon
2009  All My Mothers
2009  No One Knows About Persian Cats
2012  About 111 Girls
2012  Rhino Season
2014  Mardan
2014  Words with Gods
2015  A Flag Without a Country
2015  Life on the Border
2021  The Four Walls

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