World Sales » Documentaries   War is Over?! back to World Sales   Director, Writer, Art Director by Bahman Ghobadi Duration: 51 Minutes Language: Kurdish Colour Iran, 2003 Beta SP A Mij Film production SYNOPSIS   Immediately after Saddam Hussein's fall, the prize winning director of “A Time for Drunken Horses” and “Marooned in Iraq” travels to Iraq to arrange screenings of his work. An Iranian Kurd himself, Bahman Ghobadi is eager to bring cinema back to people for whom it has ceased to exist. Upon arriving in Baghdad, however, he discovers that film screenings are a soft target for terrorist attacks, and that people are afraid to attend. So he travels to the Kurdish region in the north, where everybody he encounters attests to the brutality of Saddam's regime. This impromptu sketchbook, a kind of prelude to Ghobadi's next feature film TURTLES CAN FLY, reflects the post-war confusion and succeeds in capturing an unforgettable slice of reality.     Festival   1. Douarnenez Film Festival, France – 2003 2. 26th Leipzig Film Festival, Germany – 2003 3. 17th Singapore Film Festival, Singapore – 2004 4. 3rd Tribeca Film Festival, USA – 2004 5. 5th Gathering of Iranian studying Association, New York – 2004 6. 53rd Melbourne Film Festival, Australia – 2004 7. Sao Paulo Film Festival, Brazil – 2004 8. The 3rd Kurdish Film Festival, London – 2004 9. The 20th International Documentary Film Festival Munich, Germany, May 6 – 14, 2005, Section: in the competition of the Horizonte Programme   CREW   Produced, and directed by Bahman Ghobadi Writer: Behnam Behzadi Design, sound and picture editing: Behnam Behzadi Photography: Hamed Ghavami, Bahman Gholami Sound recording: Rahmat Moadi Music: A selection of Hossein Alizadeh and Arsalan Kamkar's work Narration: Naeem Karimi Technical affairs: Rasaneye Pooya Producer: Mij Film   About Bahman Ghobadi   Biography: Bahman Ghobadi was born on February 1st, 1969 in Baneh, province of Kurdistan in Iran. He was the first son of four. He lived in Baneh up to age 12, and got his B.A. in film directing from the Iranian Broadcasting College. Because of civil disputes, his whole family emigrated to Sanandaj (Center of the Kurdistan Province in Iran). He recieved his diploma in Sanandaj & he came to Tehran in 1992 for his advanced studies. Ghobadi started his artistic career in the field of industrial photography from 1998. He was never properly graduated because he believed everything he had learnt was from his short films. All this experience helped him to expand his individualistic vision of the world. He started filmmaking with 8mm. He made a few short documentaries as a starting point. His short films, as of the mid 1990's, received many foreign & domestic awards. "Life in Fog" (1997) opened a new opportunity in his career. This film won many different international awards & became "the most famous documentary ever made in the history of Iranian cinema." With the making of the full-length feature “A Time For Drunken Horses” (1999) he became a globally recognized director. This was the first full Kurdish feature film in the history of Iranian cinema, and Ghobadi is the first Kurdish director in the history of Iranian cinema. Filmography: Ding (1996), short movie: writer, director Life in Fog (1997): writer, director A Time for Drunken Horses (1999): writer, director, producer Blackboards (2002): actor Marooned in Iraq (2003): writer, director, producer Daf (2004): writer, director, producer War is over (2004): director, producer Turtles Can Fly (2004): writer, director, producer   back to World Sales