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...Chow's comedy is about a community of poor souls who find ways to survive. So are two fine films from Iranian directors, but their palette is necessarily darker, since the settings are Iraq and Afghanistan. Bahman Ghobadi's Turtles Can Fly tells a story of Kurdish kids on the Turkey-Iraq border. Many have been maimed by land mines yet never stop performing the one job that brings them money?searching for mines?under the command of a charming, scheming 13-year-old who pretty much runs the town. Stray Dogs, shot in Kabul by Marziyeh Meshkini, focuses...
That's about all there is to the plot of Marooned in Iraq. But this half-mad movie by Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi (A Time for Drunken Horses), entirely played by Kurdish actors unknown to most of us, is a marvel--an odyssey through chaos and hysteria that finally ends in redemptive, if provisional, peace...
Three of the winners came from Iran's burgeoning cinema. Hassan Yektapanah's "Djomeh" and Bahman Ghobadi's "A Time from Drunken Horses" shared the Camera d'Or for best first film. And Samira Makhmalbaf received a Jury Prize for "Blackboards," a potent minimalist epic about itinerant Kurdish teachers. Makhmalbaf is a rare creature: a woman filmmaker in the fundamentalist Islamic republic and, at 20, the youngest director to win a prize at Cannes. Makhmalbaf said she accepted the award "on behalf of the young, new generation of hope in my homeland - to honor the heroic affairs of those...
...their adopted hometown of Edmonton, Alta., the immigrant Ghermezian brothers -- Eskandar, Nader, Raphael and Bahman -- are figures swaddled in rumor and mystery. Fiercely privacyminded, they refuse to divulge their exact ages and are rarely photographed together. Their rapid-fire conversations in Farsi and French often befuddle English-speaking business peers. But from behind that fog, the four Iranian natives have created one of Canada's biggest and most spectacular real estate baronies and are quickly expanding their razzle-dazzle fiefdom southward. Before long, U.S. consumers will get a full exposure to the revolutionary marketing flair of the Ghermezians, who have...
...society, which has chapters in large cities in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia, wants to increase awareness of the Ayatollah's actions in Iran and "make Khomeini internationally isolated." Bahman Ahmaei, an economics student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said yesterday...