Bahman Ghobadi Articles
SXSW 2010: 24 Beats per Second
Bahman Ghobadi's No One Knows About Persian Cats (Mij Films) The 2010 SXSW Film Festival will take place March 12-20 in Austin, Texas. Ain't In It For My Health: A Film About Levon Helm Director: Jacob Hatley In Ain't In It For My Health Levon Helm finds himself thrust into the musical spotlight for the first time in a quarter century, but a Grammy nomination [...]
TURTLES CAN FLY Best Film San Sebastián Film Festival
Shot a mere month after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, Bahman Ghobadi's Iraqi war drama Turtles Can Fly (photo) won the Golden Shell at the 2004 San Sebastián Film Festival. According to Reuters, Peruvian author and chairman of the jury Mario Vargas Llosa stated that although the decision was not unanimous, Turtles Can Fly had "moved us all, not only because of the terrible [...]