Bahman Ghobadi Essays

  • No One Knows about Persian Cats

    1068 Words  | 3 Pages

    people”. No one knows about Persian cats takes us into the underground music scene in Iran. Many in the western world and especially in the United States may look dumbfounded when you talk about an underground music scene in Iran. I believe the director Bahman Ghobadi’s movie about the underground music scene not only exposes the repression of the existing Iranian government on freedom of expression, but also shows a side of Iranian culture most would never have thought existed. I believe this movie upholds

  • Turtles Can Fly And Edge Of Heaven

    833 Words  | 2 Pages

    this claim in the account of nation-state cinema, but national cinema are way beyond the national boundary, whether in its circulation or content, besides national boundaries are moveable. In this essay, I will discuss the films Turtles Can Fly (Bahman Ghobadi, 2004) and Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin, 2007) to analyze national cinema as the beachhead of third cinema is a vital term in interpret cinema. At the start, I will explore the situation when national cinema engaging with different audiences; then