Bahman Ghobadi: Bahman Ghobadi. Director: Turtles Can Fly. Bahman Ghobadi was born in 1969 in Baneh, in the province of Iranian Kurdistan, near the Iran-Iraq border. Shortly after graduating from the National Audiovisual School, he made his first short, immediately acclaimed by the local critics. One of these short films, "Life in Fog" (1999) is even considered as the most famous short ever made in Iran. This success allowed Bahman Ghobadi to...
Known For: Turtles Can Fly (Director), Half Moon (Director), A Time for Drunken Horses (Director), Marooned in Iraq (Director)