Bahman Ghobadi

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1969-02-01 (56 years old)

Place of Birth

Baneh, Kurdistan, Iran

Bahman Ghobadi

Biography

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 lit...

Production

2005

Turtles Can Fly

as Director

2002

Marooned in Iraq

as Director

2006

Half Moon

as Director

2021

2021

2021

The Four Walls

as Producer

2012

Rhino Season

as Director

2014

Words with Gods

as Director

2021

The Four Walls

as Director

1999

Life in Fog

as Director

1999

Life in Fog

as Writer

2005

Turtles Can Fly

as Producer

2005

Turtles Can Fly

as Production Design

2015

2006

Half Moon

as Art Direction

2006

Half Moon

as Producer

2014

Mardan

as Producer

1999

The Wind Will Carry Us

as Assistant Director

2009

All My Mothers

as Consulting Producer

2012

2012

About 111 Girls

as Producer

2003

Daf

as Director

2012

Rhino Season

as Writer

2012

Rhino Season

as Screenplay

2000

2003

Daf

as Screenplay

2000

2009

2006

Half Moon

as Screenplay

2005

Turtles Can Fly

as Screenplay

2002

Marooned in Iraq

as Screenplay

2012

Rhino Season

as Producer

2002

Marooned in Iraq

as Producer

2014

Words with Gods

as Screenplay

2012

Rhino Season

as Production Design

2015

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