2 Quotes & Sayings By Bahman Ghobadi
Bahman Ghobadi is an Iranian filmmaker. He was born in Tehran in 1972. He studied film at the University of Tehran and currently lives in Paris, where he is Professor of Film at the Sorbonne. Ghobadi's films have won numerous awards, including Best Film at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Grand Prix at the 2008 Venice Film Festival, and Special Jury Prize at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. His fifth feature film "The Weight of Water" was nominated for Palme d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Ghobadi's films are characterized by their quiet beauty and realistic, naturalistic style
They draw on his own experiences as an outsider of Iranian society (he is not ethnically Persian), and they reflect his distrust of official propaganda and of official accounts of historical events.