Bahman Ghobadi ( بهمن قبادی ) 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. He is best known for his film 'No One Knows About Persian Cats' which won an Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize ex-aequo when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.Bahman Ghobadi has been a Actor in some movies:
The Wind Will Carry Us is about that Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural vi
...llage in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result. Synopsis by IMVBox In this film Bahman Ghobadi collaborates with Lida Soltani, Farzad Sohrabi, Masoameh Salimi, Frangis Rahsepar, Masood Mansouri, Reihan Heidari, Shahpour Ghobadi, Noghre Asadi, Roushan Karam Elmi, Mahmoud Kalari, Marin Karmitz, Jahangir Mirshekari, Mohammad Reza Delpak, Abbas Kiarostami, Behzad Dorani, Peyman Yazdanian, Nick Biscardi, Mohammad Hassan Najm.
No One Knows About Persian Cats is about that Negar and Ashkan, two twentysomething Iranian songwriters, decide to set up an underground band and look for other musicians to join them, but the authorities keep putting a spanner in the works. Fed up with being hindered from expressing themselves, the two young people try to get documents to leave the country for Europe. In this semi-documentary, you discover the Iran you don't see in the news bulletins, or in the stately arthouse movies: it's the Iran that loves rock, heavy metal and rap. In this film Bahman Ghobadi collaborates with Hamed Behdad, Shervin Najafian, Bahman Ardalan, Hayedeh Safiyari, Touraj Mansouri, Babak Mirzakhani, Homayoun Nasiri, Mehmet Aktas, Negar Shaghaghi, Ashkan Koshanejad, Kosh Mirzahi, Pouya Hosseini, Arask Farazmand, Ali Rahmani, Ebrahim Asghan, Kamran Ahangari, Mina Bolouriani, Melahat Masoumi, Mehdi Barikani, Mehdi Tabar, Mohammad Abdizadeh, Golriz Khaleghi, Golnaz Khaleghi, Sima Bahramsari, Asal Mohsenin, Sara Roozbahani, Ghazaleh Rashidi, Maziar Khajian, Farshad Pasdar, Soroush Farazmand, Siavash Karampour, Mina Khorami, Arian Naeini, Afshin Katebi, Peyman Esmati, Arzhang Gharib, Habib Sarreshtehdari, Raana Farhan, Abrang, Mahsa Vahat, Marjan Vahdat, Dara Daraei, Arash Vojdani, Mahdyar Aghajani, Hossein Mortezaeiyan, Roxana Saberi, Nezamoddin Kiaie, Hamed Javadi.
Bahman Ghobadi has been a Director in some movies:
Turtles Can Fly is about that 'Turtles Can Fly' is set in Ghobadi's native Kurdistan on the eve of the American invasion of Iraq. Thirteen-year-old Soran (Soran Ebrahim) is known as 'Satellite,' for his installation of dishes and antennae for local villages looking for news of Saddam. He is the dynamic leader of the children, organizing the dangerous but necessary sweeping and clearing of the minefields. He then arranges trade-ins for the unexploded mines. The industrious Satellite falls for an unlikely orphan (Avaz Latif), a sad-faced girl traveling with her brother Henkov (Hirsh Feyssal), who appears to have the gift of clairvoyance. The siblings are care-taking a three-year-old, whose connection to the pair is discovered as harsh truths are unveiled... In this film Bahman Ghobadi collaborates with Shahriar Assadi, Bahman Ardalan, Hayedeh Safiyari, Hossein Alizadeh, Abbas Ghazali, Mostafa Kherghehpoosh, Hamid Ghavami, Babak Amini, Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal, Hiresh Feysal Rahman, AbdolRahman Karim, Ajil Zibari.
Half Moon is about that Mamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons, he sets out for the long and troublesome journey in a derelict bus, denying a recurring vision of his own death at half moon. Halfway the party halts at a small village to pick up female singer Hesho, which will only add to the difficulty of the undertaking, as it is forbidden for Iranian women to sing in public, let alone in the company of men. But Mamo is determined to carry through, if not for the gullible antics of the bus driver. In this film Bahman Ghobadi collaborates with Golshifteh Farahani, Hediyeh Tehrani, Hassan Pourshirazi, Bahman Ardalan, Hayedeh Safiyari, Hossein Alizadeh, Mehrdad Mirkiani, Mansoureh Yazdanjou, Ismaeil Ghaffari, Allah-Morad Rashtian, Nigel Bluck, Crighton Bone.
A Time for Drunken Horses is about that After their father dies, a family of five are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. Matters are made worse when 12 year old Ayoub, the new head of the family, is told that his handicapped brother, Madi, needs an immediate operation in order to remain alive. This heartbreaking tale shows the lengths to which a family will go in order to survive in the harshest of conditions. In this film Bahman Ghobadi collaborates with Mehdi Darabi, Hossein Alizadeh, Saed Nikzat, Samad Tavazoi, Morteza Razavi, Mahmood Moosavinejad, Ayoub Ahmadi, Rojin Younessi, Amaneh Ekhtairdini, Madi Ekhtiardini, Kolsolum Ekhtiardini.
Blackboards is about that Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope? In this film Bahman Ghobadi collaborates with Behnaz Jafari, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Samira Makhmalbaf, Mohammad Ahmadi, Behrouz Shahamat, Mohammad Reza Darvishi, Ebrahim Ghafouri, Akbar Meshkini, Saeed Mohammadi, Shozo Ichiyama, Marco Mueller, Abbas Saghari, Mohammad Karim Rahmati, Rafat Moradi, Mayas Rostami, Saman Akhbari, Ahmad Bahrami, Karim Moradi, Hassan Mohamadi, Rasool Mohamadi, Somaye Veisee, Mohammad Moradi.
Marooned in Iraq is about that Mirza who is a famous singer and music player, asks his sons Barat and Owde to help him in searching for a woman called Hanareh. He has found out that Hanareh is singing for Kurdish refugees at the Iran-Iraq border. These three people begin their journey and when they arrive at the camp of refugees, they can not find Hanareh but she has left a letter. Her mother-in-law tells them the letter is to Mola Ghader. They find Mola Ghader who is forced by a bully and violent man to marry him a girl while the girl's father disagree with the marriage. The violent man knows Mirza and his sons and takes them forcibly to play songs in his wedding. But the wedding ceremony is disturbed and a struggle comes up. Barat meets a woman and falls in love with her but the woman does not pay any attention to him. Mirza and his sons go to Mola Ghader who is buried in sand up to his neck by the violent man. Mola Ghader says he does not know anything about the letter. They continue their search but some bandits have disguised as gendarmes and rob them. In search of the bandits in Kurdistan of Iraq, Barat sees his motorcycle in a coffee shop but fails to return it. The coffee man gives them an address of Hanareh and they move on until they encounter a teacher who is teaching to his students on top of a mountain. He takes them to his camp. Owde who has seven wives and and thirteen children by himself, decides to adopt two children of the camp too. Mirza and Barat see a mass grave on their way. There, Barat finds a woman whom he has loved for her nice voice. The old man continues his way alone. At the women camp, Mirza is told that Hanareh has invited him because Seyed (Hanareh's husband) had said in his will that Mirza should bury his corpse. Mirza buries Seyed and then finds out that Hanareh has lost her voice due to a chemical bombardment. Among Hanareh's family, there is only her daughter Snooreh alive. Mirza takes her to Iran. In this film Bahman Ghobadi collaborates with Hayedeh Safiyari, Saed Nikzat, Faegh Mohammadi, Arsalan Kamkar, Alireza Alavian, Saeed Mohammadi, Hossein Rashid-Ghamat, Allah-Morad Rashtian, Shahab Ebrahimi, Rojan Hosseini, Iran Ghobadi.
Other films are:
Mardan, Words with Gods, Gergedan Mevsimi, About 111 Girls, The Four Walls
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