The information surplus that over-emphasizes each gesture and facet of our Western culture — the constant stream of news bulletins, minor incidents all tied up with large-scale catastrophes — keeps us ...
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 big screen. "If you ...
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 ...
Bahman Ghobadi, the exiled Iranian filmmaker who has won prizes at Cannes, Berlin, San Sebastian and many other international festivals, has penned a letter to the Film Academy saying, “It would be ...
The planet’s lone major Kurdish filmmaker, Bahman Ghobadi is also the most satirical and least self-conscious of the big Iranian New Wave voices, which is probably why in 10 years all five of his ...
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 ...
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first trailer for Bahman Ghobadi’s new feature The Four Walls, which launched today at the Tokyo International Film Festival as part of its Main Competition. The film, produced ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bahman Ghobadi, the exiled Iranian filmmaker who has won prizes at Cannes, Berlin, San Sebastian and many other international ...
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 big screen. “If you ...