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21:th March
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Mazher Xaleqi
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Ghobadis Half Moon listed among the 100 best films of 2008
Kurdistannetwork - December 2, 2008
The Times newspaper announced the 100 best movies released in the United Kingdom this year.
Although Bahman Ghobadi's latest movie, Half Moon, which got the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Film festival in 2006, couldn't get the permission for screening at theaters in Iran, the film is in the list of the 100 best films of 2008.
In a book called Cinema Now which was released in 2006 Bahman Ghobadi was chosen as one of the top filmmakers in the world. Ghobadi’s name appeared in the book along with the names of some of the worlds famous directors such as Pedro Almodovar, Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant and Christopher Nolan.
The Kurdish directors such as Jamil Rostami and Bahman Ghobadi although among the most successful movie directors in Iran are often accused of being separatists by the Iranian authorities. They face hard pressure because of their Kurdish heritage and are often put tuff restrictions up on them for lame reasons. An example of such a restriction is Bahman Ghobadis last feature film, although a Kurdish movie he was forced to make it only 20% in the Kurdish language and the rest in Persian.
The movie Half Moon is about Mamo, an old Eastern Kurd (Iranian Kurd) musician, who has begun a journey to Southern Kurdistan(Iraqi Kurdistan) with his sons to perform a concert after the fall of Saddam Hussein. He has been allowed to perform his music freely in as the Kurds call it Kurdistani Azad (Free Kurdistan). He’s determined to make the trip despite the premonition of one of his sons that tragedy awaits before the next full moon.
The Time magazine puts it like this - But the savage drama of the landscape, the indomitable optimism of the people and the passion of the ubiquitous music – almost every character is a musician – is universal in its appeal. The release of Gobadi’s fourth feature film is timely, providing a face and a voice for a people lately known best as the targets of a Turkish bombing campaign.
Source: The Times
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