Bahman Ghobadi
Bahman Ghobadi has become one of the world's most promising and interesting directors with only three feature films. The Kurdish Iranian director has managed to create work in the most challenging of circumstances. His films centered around Kurdish life are shocking and real, but frequently touched with hope and humor.
Ghobadi was born in 1969 in Baneh, Iran, and studied film in Tehran. Ghobadi began working in the field of industrial photography and also shot his own short films on 8mm and on video. Between 1995 and 1999 his short films (like »God's Fish«, »Again Rain With the Melody«, »This Man Has Arrived«, »Life in Fog«) earned him numerous awards and opened up new opportunities for him. In 1999, he worked as an assistant director for Abbas Kiarostami and went on to shoot his first feature »A Time For Drunken Horses«, which was awarded the Camera D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2004 he was awarded with the Golden Shell of the San Sebastian International Film Festival for »Turtles can fly«.
Filmographie
2000 »A Time For Drunken Horses«
2002 »Songs Of My Motherland« (aka »Marooned in Iraq«)
2004 »Turtles Can Fly«
2006 »Half Moon« (»Niwemang«)
Half Moon (2006)
Niwemang erzählt die Geschichte einer Reise. Ein berühmter und eigenwilliger alter kurdischer Sänger entschliesst sich, mit seinen Söhnen in einem alten Bus ins irakische Kurdistan zu reisen, um dort gemeinsam mit ihnen ein Festkonzert zu geben. Für diese Musik ist jedoch die Stimme einer Frau grundlegend wichtig, doch Frauen dürfen im Iran nicht singen. Mit einer Frau an Bord müssen sie also illegal in den Irak reisen. Weiter
