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MoMA Highlights Films Of Iranian Kurdish
Director Bahman Ghobadi
24.6.2008
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June
24, 2008
The Films of Bahman Ghobadi, which is presented in
the Roy and Niuta Titus Theatres, June 27–July 7,
2008, is a seven-film, mid-career retrospective of
the work of Bahman Ghobadi, an Iranian Kurd whose
poignant features, documentaries,www.ekurd.net
and narrative shorts
that expressively blend documentary and fiction
elements have made him one of his country's
most-renowned filmmakers and brought him recognition
as the pioneering Kurdish filmmaker from Iran.
The director will discuss his most recent and
best-known features Turtles Can Fly (2004) on June
27 and A Time for Drunken Horses (2000) and Half
Moon (2006/07) on June 28 via live webcast. The
exhibition is organized by Sally Berger, Assistant
Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern
Art.
Bahman Ghobadi was born in 1969 in Baneh, a Kurdish
city near the Iran-Iraqi Kurdistan region border in
the province of Iranian Kurdistan. When he was 12,
civil disputes forced his entire family to immigrate
to the provincial capital of Sanandaj (Sinah). |
The famous Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi.
Half Moon, Winner of the 2006 Inspiration Award at
Mountain film in Telluride, and the Award at the
2004 Maui Film Festival. |
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.
During the mid-1990s, Ghobadi's short films began to
receive recognition in Iran and abroad. His short
film Life in Fog (1999)—the true story of a
14-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.
The first Kurdish feature film in the history of
Iranian cinema,www.ekurd.net
and the winner of the
Best First Feature Award at Cannes, 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, his films tell poetic stories of people
facing life and hardship with courage and joy. --
www.moma.org
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