Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Bahman Ghobadi's No One Knows About Persian Cats. While the first annual Doha-Tribeca Film Festival — held this past weekend in the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar and organized in part by Tribeca Enterprises — displayed a reasonably broad range of work from all over the globe, we were most intrigued by its spotlight on films from Middle Eastern directors. The region has been experiencing...
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 06/20/2009
Rebecca Smeyne In the week one of us had to publicly defend himself against the crime of using the phrase "Fey Highwayman," we watched with amusement as close SOTC affiliate Christopher R. Weingarten became a viral video poster boy for the death of music criticism . Poetic choice of t-shirts, Chris! Elsewhere, we talked to Woody Allen about his new Whatever Works , Iranian filmmaker Bahman...
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 06/16/2009
"No one can stop these young people anymore. It is not in the hands of the government. It's not about Mousavi or Khatami or Ahmadinejad. People are taking this into their own hands." A still from Bahman Ghobadi's Nobody Knows About the Persian Cats It's been quite a year for Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi. His fiance, journalist Roxana Saberi, was arrested by Iranian authorities and charged...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 05/22/2009
CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) - Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi puts aside Kurdish themes for a topic that would appear even more politically sensitive in Iran: the underground music scene. This bold piece of docu-fiction, an open protest against censorship and the repression of individual liberties, will no doubt make waves in Iran, where its only hope for release is on black market DVD. Abroad, it...
Index on Censorship (Free subscription) | 05/18/2009
China’s Lou Ye and Iran’s Bahman Ghobadi are both at Cannes Film Festival with movies made undercover after they were barred from working by the authorities at home. ” Read more here and here
CNN (Free subscription) | 05/18/2009
As award-winning Iranian film-maker Bahman Ghobadi walked down the Cannes red carpet for the premiere of his new feature Thursday, the real star of the show was conspicuously absent.
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 05/15/2009
A film co-scripted by Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi and directed by her fiance, Iranian-Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, was screened in the “Un Certain Regard” section of the Cannes Film Festival today. Saberi was released from Tehran’s Evin prison on May 11 after her eight-year prison sentence on charges of espionage was reduced to a two-year suspended [...]
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 05/14/2009
A film co-scripted by U.S.-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi premiered at the Cannes Film festival Thursday, and her partner - the film's director, Bahman Ghobadi - flew from Tehran to the French Riviera for the red-carpet premiere.
Examiner (Free subscription) | 05/14/2009
A film co-scripted by U.S.-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi premiered at the Cannes Film festival Thursday, and her partner - the film's director, Bahman Ghobadi - flew from Tehran to the French Riviera for the red-carpet premiere.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 05/14/2009
A film co-scripted by U.S.-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi premiered at the Cannes Film festival Thursday, and her partner - the film's director, Bahman Ghobadi - flew from Tehran to the French Riviera for the red-carpet premiere.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 05/14/2009
A film co-scripted by U.S.-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi premiered at the Cannes Film festival Thursday, and her fiance - the film's director, Bahman Ghobadi - flew from Tehran to the French Riviera for the red-carpet premiere.
Examiner (Free subscription) | 05/14/2009
A film co-scripted by U.S.-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi premiered at the Cannes Film festival Thursday, and her fiance - the film's director, Bahman Ghobadi - flew from Tehran to the French Riviera for the red-carpet premiere.
KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 05/14/2009
A film co-scripted by U.S.-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi premiered at the Cannes Film festival Thursday, and her fiance - the film's director, Bahman Ghobadi - flew from Tehran to the French Riviera for the red-carpet premiere.
pullquote (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
An ugly angle on the Saberi story, courtesy of Time: Even as Saberi's parents rejoiced at her release there was additional drama in front of the prison. Also waiting there was internationally acclaimed filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, who had published an...
pullquote (Free subscription) | 04/21/2009
A brief explanatory note: Imprisoned Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi translated for her fiance, filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, when we spoke with them via Skype at the Flaherty Seminar last June [after Ghobadi was denied a visa to come to the U.S....
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