Cinema & Media

Yılmaz Güney, Bahman Ghobadi, Hiner Saleem and the great films.

Filmmakers

Bahman Ghobadi

1969 –

Bahman Ghobadi (born 1969), Iranian Kurdish director, second only to Yılmaz Güney as a Kurdish filmmaker. Born in Baneh in Iranian Kurdistan...

Filmmaker

Yılmaz Güney

1937 – 1984

Yılmaz Güney (1937–1984) — Kurdish-Turkish actor, director and writer, one of the great world directors of the twentieth century. Born Yılma...

Films

Turtles Can Fly

Bahman Ghobadi · 2004

Bahman Ghobadi's second masterpiece, shot in a Kurdish village on the Turkish-Iraqi border on the eve of the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. It is about Kurd...

A Time for Drunken Horses

Bahman Ghobadi · 2000

Bahman Ghobadi's first feature, 2000, formally placed Kurdish cinema on the world map by winning the Caméra d'Or at Cannes. It is set on the mountainous Iran–Ir...

Yol (The Road)

Yılmaz Güney · 1982

The masterpiece of Kurdish and Turkish cinema, Yol won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1982, sharing the prize with Costa-Gavras's Missing. Yılmaz Güney wrote it fr...