Bahman Ghobadi

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Bahman Ghobadi - what members say

Turtles Can Fly review by brixtonite from London

Almost unbearably sad, BUT... 8 January 2008
... out to clear minefields for pennies, to have much in the way of laughs. But Bahman Ghobadi (a hero director if ever there was one) manages to leaven the almost unbearable... Read customer review

Half Moon review by from Aylesbury/Bucks/England

Beautiful film 29 January 2008
...pooli (Butterfly) who was born with the name Niwe mung (Half Moon). Director Bahman Ghobadi was an enthusiastic show-up for the 3rd screening and gave many interesting tid... Read customer review

No One Knows About Persian Cats - Blu-ray (2009)
Starring: Hamed Behdad, Ashkan Koohzad, Negar Shaghaghi
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Certificate:
Iranian musicians Negar and Ashkan look for band members to play at a London concert ... and the visa that allows them to leave Tehran to do so.

65% from 11 members
Currently unavailable

No One Knows About Persian Cats on DVD (2009)
Starring: Hamed Behdad, Ashkan Koohzad, Negar Shaghaghi
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Certificate:
Iranian musicians Negar and Ashkan look for band members to play at a London concert ... and the visa that allows them to leave Tehran to do so.

63% from 618 members

Half Moon on DVD (2006)
Starring: Golshifteh Farahani, Ismail Ghaffari, Allah-Morad Rashtian
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Certificate:
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 ..read more »

59% from 380 members

Turtles Can Fly (2004)
Starring: Avaz Latif, Soran Ebrahim, Hirsh Feyssal
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Certificate:
The first feature film to emerge from Iraq after the American-led take-down of Saddam Hussein, Bhaman Ghobadi's TURTLES CAN FLY is a profoundly moving reminder that war spares nobody not even a child in its horrid wake. Between the borders of Iran and Turkey, the residents of an Iraqi Kurdistan ..read more »

72% from 1,267 member
Not currently released

Blackboards on DVD (2000)
Starring: Bahman Ghobadi, Said Mohamadi, Behnaz Jafari
Director: Samira Makhmalbaf
Certificate:
Hauling blackboards on their backs, two educators venture into the desolate mountainous terrain of Iranian Kurdistan to promote literacy. Going separate ways, the teachers find themselves latching on to respective groups journeying to the Iraqi border. Reeboir (Bahman Ghobadi) joins a group of ..read more »

62% from 1,314 member

A Time For Drunken Horses (2000)
Starring: Ayoub Ahmadi, Rojin Younessi, Amaneh Ekhtiar-Dini
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Certificate:
Bahman Ghobadi's tragic, yet unsentimental first feature is influenced by his own childhood in Iran's Kurdistan. In a remote Kurdish village on the Iran-Iraq border, five motherless children endure hardscrabble lives, as heavily burdened by responsibility and loss as a smuggler's mule. Ayoub (Ayoub ..read more »

68% from 697 members
Currently unavailable

The Wind Will Carry Us on DVD (1999)
Starring: Noghre Asadi, Bahman Ghobadi
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Certificate:
A few people arrive from Tehran for a short stay at Siah Dareh, a village in Iranian Kurdistan. The locals do not know why they are there. The strangers wander around the former cemetery and let the villagers think that they are looking for treasure. They end up leaving without really giving the ..read more »

65% from 412 members

No One Knows About Persian Cats - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
No One Knows About Persian Cats - 3.0 stars
Half Moon - 3.0 stars
Turtles Can Fly - 3.5 stars
Blackboards - 3.0 stars

Turtles Can Fly - 3.5 stars
A Time For Drunken Horses - 3.5 stars
The Wind Will Carry Us - 3.0 stars
No One Knows About Persian Cats - 3.0 stars
Blackboards - 3.0 stars

Ashkan Koohzad - 2 times - show films
Negar Shaghaghi - 2 times - show films
Hamed Behdad - 2 times - show films
Amaneh Ekhtiar-Dini - 1 times - show films
Hirsh Feyssal - 1 times - show films

Abbas Kiarostami - 3 times - show films
Samira Makhmalbaf - 1 times - show films