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name: "Bahman Ghobadi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bahman-ghobadi"
fi1m_id: "bahman-ghobadi"
imdb_id: "nm0315842"
tmdb_id: 54607
wikidata_id: "Q31923"
roles: ["Assistant director"]
born: "1 February 1969"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-26T03:05:34.975431+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Bahman Ghobadi

## Identity

Bahman Ghobadi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bahman-ghobadi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** bahman-ghobadi
- **IMDb ID:** nm0315842
- **TMDB ID:** 54607
- **Wikidata ID:** Q31923
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahman_Ghobadi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31923, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0315842/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/54607

Assistant director. Born 1 February 1969 in Baneh, Kurdistan, Iran.

## Details

- **Work:** Assistant director
- **Born:** 1 February 1969, Baneh, Kurdistan, Iran
- **Also known as:** 바흐만 고바디, Бахман Гобади, بەهمەنی قوبادی
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahman_Ghobadi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31923, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0315842/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/54607

## 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.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Wind Will Carry Us* (1999), Fi1m 84, Actor, Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-wind-will-carry-us.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Trees are Watching* (2026), Director, Writer, Producer
- *The Four Walls* (2021), Writer, Producer, Director, Original Music Composer
- *A Flag Without a Country* (2015), Director, Editor, Music, Producer, Screenplay
- *Life on the Border* (2015), Producer
- *Words with Gods* (2014), Director, Screenplay
- *Mardan* (2014), Producer
- *Rhino Season* (2012), Director, Writer, Screenplay, Producer, Production Design
- *About 111 Girls* (2012), Editor, Producer
- *No One Knows About Persian Cats* (2009), as Bahman · Director, Producer, Screenplay, Production Design
- *All My Mothers* (2009), Consulting Producer
- *Turtles Can Fly* (2006), Director, Producer, Production Design, Screenplay
- *Half Moon* (2006), Director, Art Direction, Producer, Screenplay
- *Daf* (2003), Director, Screenplay
- *Searching for Meaning: Jeonju Digital Project* (2003), Director
- *Marooned in Iraq* (2002), Director, Screenplay, Producer
- *A Time for Drunken Horses* (2000), Director, Art Direction, Producer, Screenplay
- *Blackboards* (2000), as Rebwar
- *The Wind Will Carry Us* (1999), Assistant Director — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-wind-will-carry-us.md)
- *Life in Fog* (1999), Director, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Bahman Ghobadi at the press conference about his new film "Nobody knows about Persian Cats" (at the 57th San Sebastián Film Festival) (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/3931772/gallery-26f1ff04b417.jpg) Bahman Ghobadi at the press conference about his new film "Nobody knows about Persian Cats" (at the 57th San Sebastián Film Festival) (2009) — Neva Micheva, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/BahmanGhobadi2009.JPG/1280px-BahmanGhobadi2009.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Bahman Ghobadi, Iranian/Kurdish film director in San Sebastian (Spain) (2006)](https://film.one/media/person/3931772/gallery-b6d78c4bcf1a.jpg) Bahman Ghobadi, Iranian/Kurdish film director in San Sebastian (Spain) (2006) — Neva Micheva, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/BahmanGhobadi.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Bahman Ghobadi recibiendo la Concha de Oro en el Festival de San Sebastián (2006)](https://film.one/media/person/3931772/gallery-b2108fcda9b0.jpg) Bahman Ghobadi recibiendo la Concha de Oro en el Festival de San Sebastián (2006) — Oneras [2], CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/San_Sebastian_Festival_Golden_Seashell.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Annual award ACFK 2018: Annual award ACFK (won)
- Index Award 2006: Index Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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