Bahman Ghobadi

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Ghobadi, San Sebastian, 2009

Bahman Ghobadi (born February 1, 1969 in Baneh , Kordestān , Iran ; Persian بهمن قبادی) is an Iranian-Kurdish screenwriter , film producer and film director .

Life

Bahman Ghobadi was born in 1968 in the Iranian Kurdistan in the city of Baneh, in which his first feature film takes place in the time of the drunken horses . In his childhood, which was marked by the First Gulf War , his homeland was bombed several times by the Iraqi air force. Many of his relatives were killed in the process.

Ghobadi's parents separated when he was eleven years old. He had to work to support his family. After graduating from high school, he went to radio. In 1988 he joined a group of young film lovers in Sanandaj , and together they made the first short films. In 1993 he moved to Tehran to study filmmaking.

Bahman Ghobadi received his bachelor's degree from the Iranian College of Cinematography . After a brief career as a photographer, he began making short films on 8mm film . He won his first prizes with the documentary Leben im Nebel . Ghobadi was assistant to the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami in his film The Wind Will Carry Us . His first feature film was the Kurdish film Time of the Drunken Horses in 1999 , which was also the first Kurdish film in Iran. In 2000 he played one of the traveling teachers in Samira Makhmalbaf's Black Boards . The Iraqi film Lost in Iraq was his second feature film.

Bahman Ghobadi, 2006

In 2004 he made his next Kurdish film, Turtles Can Fly . This is about Kurdish children in the Gulf War. With this film he won the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival . In 2006 Ghobadi again won the Golden Shell of San Sebastián with the film Crescent Moon and in April 2007 the audience award for the best international film at the Istanbul Film Festival .

In 2017 he was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which awards the Oscars every year. He was also a jury member of the important Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) 2017.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official page of the film: Turtles can fly ( Memento from December 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Winner of the 2007 Istanbul Film Festival ( Memento of April 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Class of 2017. Accessed June 30, 2017.
  4. ^ Lee Hyo-won: Oliver Stone to Head Jury. Hollywood Reporter, August 20, 2017, accessed October 3, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Ghobadi, Bahman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian-Kurdish film director
DATE OF BIRTH 1st February 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Baneh , Kordestān , Iran