Cinema & Media
Cinema & Media
Yılmaz Güney, Bahman Ghobadi, Hiner Saleem and the great films.
Filmmakers
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...
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
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...