A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
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.
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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