Bahman Ghobadi is an Iranian

Iranian peoples

The Iranian peoples are an Indo-European ethnic-linguistic group, consisting of the speakers of Iranian languages, a major branch of the Indo-European language family, as such forming a branch of Indo-European-speaking peoples...

 film director

Film director

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 of Kurdish

Kurdish people

The Kurdish people, or Kurds , are an Iranian people native to the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey...

 ethnicity. He was born on February 1, 1969 in Baneh

Baneh

Baneh is a city in and capital of Baneh County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 69,635, in 15,857 families....

, Kurdistan Province

Kurdistan Province

Kurdistan Province or Kordestan Province or Kurdestan Province is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, not to be confused with the greater geographical area of Iranian Kurdistan. The province of Kurdistan is 28,817 km² in area which encompasses just one-fourth of the Kurdish inhabited areas of Iran or...

. Ghobadi belongs to the so called "new wave" of Iranian cinema.
He was born in Baneh

Baneh

Baneh is a city in and capital of Baneh County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 69,635, in 15,857 families....

, a northwestern Kurdistan Province of Iran

Iran

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. His family moved to Sanandaj

Sanandaj

Sanandaj , also Romanized as Senneh and Sinneh) is a city in and the capital of Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 311,446, in 81,380 families....

 in 1981. Ghobadi received a Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

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 in film directing from Iran Broadcasting College

Iran Broadcasting College

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. After a brief career in industrial photography, Ghobadi began making short 8 mm film

8 mm film

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s. His documentary Life In Fog won numerous awards.