Center for Iranian Modern Arts
Presents:
Bahman Ghobadi - Director
Saturday December 15 2001 5:30pm
at NYU's Cantor Film Center in New York
Life In Fog (original : a Time for Drunken Horses)
Bahman Ghobadi, Iran, 1997, 28 min , color , 16mm
Kurdish/Farsi with English subtitles
The Party, 1997, 25'
The Notebook Quota 1997,
25'
God's Fish 1997, 25'
Followed with Q&A with producer
Bahman Maghsoudlou
Cantor Film Center @ NYU on 36 East 8th St at University
Place, New York
Subway: N, R to 8th St, 6 to Astor Place
Hotline at (212)691-4267 or movies@alwan.org or http://alwan.org
Life In Fog
Bahman Ghobadi, Iran, 1997, 28 min , color , 16mm
Kurdish/Farsi with English subtitles
(The single most awarded short/documentary in the history
of Iranian cinema!)
The Party (1997, 25'),
The Notebook Quota
(1997, 25')
and
God's Fish (1997, 25')
Bahman Ghobadi - Director
Born in 1968 in the city of Baneh in Kurdestan, Iran,
he began his
career in Kurdestan in 1987 and continued his film activities
in Tehran
starting in 1992. In 1998, he graduated with a degree
in directing
from the School of Broadcasting in Tehran.
He has been an assistant director to a few Iranian filmmakers,
most
notably working on Abbas Kia-Rostami's last film (The
Wind Will Carry
Us, 1999). Ghobadi has written and directed a number of
short films
that have garnered various prestigious awards from international
film
festivals around the world.
Ghobadi's first feature film "A Time for Drunken
Horses" (2000) received the Camera d'Or at Cannes
2000.
Filmography:
- That Man Came (1994)
- Again Rain With Song (1995)
- And Now Life (1995)
- Like Mother (1996)
- A Soldier Called Amin (1997)
- The Party (1997)
- The Notebook Quota (1997)
- God's Fish (1997)
- Life in Fog (1998)
- Melodies of the Plains Girls (1999)
- A Time for Drunken Horses (Debut Feature, Winner of
Camera d'Or at
Cannes 2000)
Sponsored by
Center for Iranian Modern Arts
Contact: International Film & Video Center
989 First Ave. New York, NY 10022
V: (212) 826-8848
F: (212) 750-8846 ifvc@ifvc.com
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Cantor Film Center @ NYU on 36 East 8th St at University
Place, New York
Subway: N, R to 8th St, 6 to Astor Place
Hotline at (212)691-4267 or movies@alwan.org or http://alwan.org