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Bahman Ghobadi

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Bahman Ghobadi at a press conference at the San Sebastián Film Festival 2006

Bahman Ghobadi (Kurdish: به‌همه‌نی قوبادی, Persian: بهمن قبادی ) is a Kurdish Iranian film director. He was born on February 1, 1969 in Baneh, Kurdistan, Iran. Ghobadi belongs to the so called "new wave" of Iranian cinema.^[1]^[2]

Date of Birth:

1968, Baneh,Kurdistan, Iran

Awards:

38 wins & 4 nominations more

Jump to filmography as: Director, Writer, Producer, Art Director, Actor, Production Designer, Second Unit Director or Assistant Director, Self

Director:

Niwemang (2006)
... aka Half Moon (Canada: English title: festival title)
Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand (2004)
... aka Tortues volent aussi, Les (France: DVD title)
... aka Turtles Can Fly (International: English title)
Daf (2003)
Gomgashtei dar Aragh (2002)
... aka Marooned in Iraq (International: English title)
... aka Songs of My Motherland (International: English title)
Zamani barayé masti asbha (2000)
... aka A Time for Drunken Horses (International: English title)
... aka Intoxication for Horses (International: English title: informal title)
Zendegi dar meh (1999)
... aka Life in Fog

Writer:

Niwemang (2006)
... aka Half Moon (Canada: English title: festival title)
Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand (2004)
... aka Tortues volent aussi, Les (France: DVD title)
... aka Turtles Can Fly (International: English title)
Daf (2003)
Gomgashtei dar Aragh (2002)
... aka Marooned in Iraq (International: English title)
... aka Songs of My Motherland (International: English title)
Zamani barayé masti asbha (2000)
... aka A Time for Drunken Horses (International: English title)
... aka Intoxication for Horses (International: English title: informal title)

Producer:

Niwemang (2006) (producer)
... aka Half Moon (Canada: English title: festival title)
Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand (2004) (producer)
... aka Tortues volent aussi, Les (France: DVD title)
... aka Turtles Can Fly (International: English title)
Gomgashtei dar Aragh (2002) (producer)
... aka Marooned in Iraq (International: English title)
... aka Songs of My Motherland (International: English title)
Zamani barayé masti asbha (2000) (producer)
... aka A Time for Drunken Horses (International: English title)
... aka Intoxication for Horses (International: English title: informal title)

Art Director:

Niwemang (2006)
... aka Half Moon (Canada: English title: festival title)
Zamani barayé masti asbha (2000)
... aka A Time for Drunken Horses (International: English title)
... aka Intoxication for Horses (International: English title: informal title)

Actor:

Takhté siah (2000) .... Reeboir
... aka Blackboards (USA)
... aka Lavagne (Italy)
... aka The Blackboard (International: English title)
Bad ma ra khahad bord (1999)
... aka The Wind Will Carry Us (Canada: English title) (USA)
... aka Vent nous emportera, Le (France)

Production Designer:

Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand (2004)
... aka Tortues volent aussi, Les (France: DVD title)
... aka Turtles Can Fly (International: English title)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director:

Bad ma ra khahad bord (1999) (assistant director)
... aka The Wind Will Carry Us (Canada: English title) (USA)
... aka Vent nous emportera, Le (France)

Self:

San Sebastián 2006: Crónica de Carlos Boyero (2006) (TV) .... Himself
Iran: une révolution cinématographique, L' (2006) (TV) .... Himself
... aka Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution (International: English title)

Interview with Bahman Ghobadi

David Stratton talks to Bahman Ghobadi about his latest film TURTLES CAN FLY. (Complete and Un-Cut version).

This film, its directing, actors, production is all from Iraq. Everything was from Iraq except my cinematographer and sound engineer and their equipment. Everything else was from Iraq.

When I visited Iraq two weeks after the fall of Saddam, I had a small camera with me and could shoot some scenes. When I got back and looked at the film I saw that a number of children, full of energy, were in that film. Those children inspired me to go back with a professional camera, a 35 mm camera and a small group. We went illegally because they wouldn’t let us in. (more)

An Interview with Bahman Ghobadi, Director of Turtles Can Fly

Bahman Ghobadi was born in 1969 in Baneh, in Iranian Kurdistan. While he was a student, he worked for a radio station and went on to join a Sanandaj group of amateur filmmakers who helped him direct his first short films. He then relocated to Tehran to attend film classes at the university but he dropped out before graduating. Between 1995 and 1999, he directed ten or so short films, which garnered many awards in several national and international festivals. (More)

Bahman Ghobadi, director of Turtles Can Fly

By: Chris Kutschera

Although always smiling or laughing, Bahman Ghobadi is not a happy man.The reason he is not happy is because as a film director in a country where his industry is still stuttering, he must take responsability for the entire process of every aspect of film making. He must find funding and take responsability for casting, while also working as producer. But before any of these tasks are undertaken, he must first write the screenplay and obtain permission from the Iranian authorities to shoot the film . He directs the actors -- almost all of them amateurs. And he organises and orchestrates distribution of the film. "All this takes 95 per cent of my time. It is a big headache. I have only 5 per cent left for creation", complains Bahman Ghobadi during a discussion at a Kurdish Film Festival, held in Douarnenez, in Brittany, in western France. "Every time I start a new film, I have so many problems that I re-write my last will and testament after shooting the first scene", he says, half seriously. (More)