Turtles Can Fly
2004
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Bahman Ghobadi (Persian: بهمن قبادی; Kurdish: بههمهن قوبادی, romanized: Behmen Qubadî; born 1 February 1969) is an Iranian Kurdish film director, producer and writer. He belongs to the "new wave" of Iranian cinema.
Bahman Ghobadi's RHINO SEASON to premiere at this year's Toronto International Film Festival; Bahman Ghobadi talks about Turkish-shot drama RHINO SEASON; Post-production for Rhino Season by Bahman Ghobadi is wrapping! Findhorn Foundation to screen Turtles Can Fly; the Wales One World Britain Film Festival; Rhino season release in Japan
Bahman Ghobadi. Director: Turtles Can Fly. Bahman Ghobadi was born in 1969 in Baneh, in the province of Iranian Kurdistan, near the Iran-Iraq border. Shortly after graduating from the National Audiovisual School, he made his first short, immediately acclaimed by the local critics.
Bahman Ghobadi’s five feature films are impassioned cries for justice on the part of the dispossessed and those whose lives remain unseen. While the first four films all take place in Ghobadi’s native Kurdistan, his latest work brings the same passion to present-day Tehran.
Oct 25, 2000 · (indieWIRE/10.25.00) — Sitting beneath snowy watercolor prints in Soho’s The Cupping Room, Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi is a far cry from the harsh winterscapes of his native Kurdistan,...
Nov 5, 2021 · Bahman Ghobadi, the Kurdish-Iranian director whose “The Four Walls” has its world premiere this week at the Tokyo International Film Festival, wants people to watch his film on a...
May 23, 2018 · Bahman Ghobadi’s raw and moving war story was the first film shot in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. It is focused on several children living in a Kurdish refugee camp near the Iran-Iraq border just before the 2003 U.S.-led ground invasion.
