Bahman ghobadi biography templates

Kurdish Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi (Qobadi) is the most prominent Kurdish artist working today, and one of a new breed of young Iranian filmmakers who have grown up since the revolution of His four feature films since have established him as one of the most respected young filmmakers in the world.

PERSONAL HISTORY

Ghobadi, much the best-known of contemporary Kurdish filmmakers, was born in Baneh in Iranian Kurdistan on 1 February , and moved with his family to the provincial capital of Sanandaj in , during the – Iran-Iraq war.

An early interest in photography led him eventually to the study of film in Tehran, where he completed several short 8 millimetre films before approaching Iran's most distinguished art film director, abbas kiarostami, who was planning to shoot his next film in Kurdistan.

Ghobadi worked as second unit director on this film, The Wind Will Carry Us (), and also appeared in a small role. He was also cast by Samira Makhmalbaf, daught