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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Documentaries give a non-fiction account of the world today, but even documentaries can give various shadings to “the truth.” Sometimes it’s up to fiction to take us directly to the heart of painful ...

A filmmaker whose work confounds boundaries, Bahman Ghobadi was born in a Kurdish village on the Iran-Iraq border and has taken that situation as the basis for his cinema. Ghobadi, celebrated this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...