Biography
Bahman Ghobadi is an Iranian Kurdish film director, producer and writer. He was born on 1 February 1969 in Baneh, a Kurdish city in Iran, and later moved with his family to Sanandaj. He received a Bachelor of Arts in film directing from Iran Broadcasting College.
Ghobadi began with short 8 mm films after a period working in industrial photography. His documentary Life in Fog (1999) won numerous awards. He served as assistant director on Abbas Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us (1999). In 2000 he founded Mij Film to produce films about Iran's ethnic groups.
His feature films include A Time for Drunken Horses (2000), Turtles Can Fly (2004), Half Moon (2006), No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009) and Rhino Season (2012). Several of his works have received awards at international film festivals.
