Bahman Ghobadi
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
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.
