Movies
Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi works out frustrations
April 18, 2010
The intriguing title of Kurdish Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi’s “A Time for Drunken Horses” comes from a practice of Kurds along the rugged Iran-Iraq border.
Oct. 27, 2000
Iran’s foremost Kurdish movie director, Bahman Ghobadi, returns to the international scene with ‘Marooned in Iraq.’ His acclaimed debut, the 1999 ‘A Time for Drunken Horses,’ was a heartbreaker. This time the message is more hopeful.
May 23, 2003
Archives
Kurdish children brave the contradictions of war-torn Iraq in ‘Turtles Can Fly.’
Feb. 18, 2005
Bahman Ghobadi’s “Marooned in Iraq,” a lusty affirmation of life in the face of catastrophe, opens in the wake of the Gulf War with Saddam Hussein turning his wrath on the Kurds.
Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi had no intention of making the first feature film to emerge from postwar Iraq, but the children he met in northern Iraq left him with no choice.
Dec. 31, 2004
In ‘Half Moon,’ an elderly composer is determined to celebrate Saddam Hussein’s fall.
Dec. 28, 2007
World & Nation
The Malaysian censorship board has banned the local release of “Marooned in Iraq,” a film by acclaimed Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi, which details the effect of Saddam Hussein’s chemical attacks on the Iraqi Kurds in 1988, according to the British trade publication Screen International.
April 3, 2003
Movie review: ‘No One Knows About Persian Cats’
April 23, 2010
For the record
Feb. 9, 2010