Bahman Ghobadi

Não nego que faço discriminação positiva. Há locais onde certos tipos de expressão simplesmente não deveriam, pela lógica, surgir. O cinema no Kurdistão é um bom exemplo disso mesmo. E no entanto, Bahman Ghobadi, tem feito cinema, uma cinematografia que eu gostaria de ver na íntegra. Está agora em exibição no MoMA.



"Bahman Ghobadi was born in 1969 in Baneh, a city near the Iran-Iraq border in the province of Iranian Kurdistan. When he was twelve, civil disputes forced his entire family to immigrate to the provincial capital of Sanandaj. Ghobadi studied industrial photography and film directing at the Iranian Broadcasting College, but he honed his filmmaking skills shooting short documentaries on 8mm film as he traveled and collected stories among the Kurdish people. By the mid-1990s, Ghobadi's short films had begun to receive recognition in Iran and abroad. His short film Life in Fog—the true story of a fourteen-year-old boy who provides for his siblings after the death of their parents on the Iran/Iraq border—was a landmark in Iranian documentary cinema and formed the basis for his full-length narrative feature A Time for Drunken Horses (1999). The first Kurdish feature film in the history of Iranian cinema, Drunken Horses brought Ghobadi recognition as the country's foremost Kurdish director. Ghobadi's dramatic and documentary films explore the resilience and culture of the Kurdish people who live in the border areas of Iran and Iraq. Filled with scenes of beautiful yet extreme and harsh landscapes, the films tell poetic stories of people facing life and hardship with courage and joy." (daqui)

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In late May of 2007 Peter Scarlet, artistic director of the Tribeca Film Festival and our host and co-curator for CINEMONDO, traveled to the Kurdish-held area of Northern Iraq and shot an interview with Iranian Kurd filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi. Bahman Ghobadi first came to the movie world's attention in 2000, when his first feature film, "A Time for Drunken Horses," won the prize for best first feature at the Cannes Film Festival. The film was the first Kurdish language movie ever to gain worldwide attention.

Since then Ghobadi has made three more features, all in the Kurdish language. His most recent, "Half Moon," is currently banned in Iran though it has been shown in festivals around the world. Link TV's 17-minute profile of Ghobadi provides a fascinating introduction to the work of a filmmaker who has riveted audiences around the world with his courageous and deeply affecting films about Kurdish life on the Iranian-Iraqi border.