At the recent Toronto film festival, David Walsh spoke to Bahman Ghobadi through an interpreter. David Walsh: There are people who think that art should or must be silent in the face of great human ...
David Walsh: It seems to me the presence of death is everywhere in this new film. Bahman Ghobadi: I never live in the present. I’m always thinking about the next 10 years or 20 years of my life. I’m ...
I caught Bahman Ghobadi’s No One Knows about Persian Cats, opening tomorrow at the IFC Center, when it screened at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival. In the magazine, I wrote the following: The story ...
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Bahman Ghobadi discusses new drama Rhino Season starring Monica Bellucci and Behrouz Vossoughi; as well as religion-themed anthology film Words With Gods. Bahman Ghobadi’s latest film Rhino Season was ...
Ghobadi is a member of one of the planet’s more benighted populations. There are approximately 30 million Kurds, most of them spread out among Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They are a people without ...
War, exile, imprisonment, beauty and love – the material of great drama, and, in the case of Bahman Ghobadi, the material of his life over the past few years. The Iranian director, who was at the ...