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No One Knows About Persian Cats

Kasi az gorbehaye irani khabar nadareh

Iran

2009

101 Min
Color
2.35:1
Persian
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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DIR Bahman Ghobadi

PROD Bahman Ghobadi

SCR Bahman Ghobadi, Roxana Saberi, Hossein Mortezaeiyan

DP Turaj Aslani

CAST Hamed Behdad, Ashkan Koshanejad, Negar Shaghaghi, Hichkas, Hamed Seyyed Javadi

ED Hayed Safi-Yari

MUSIC Mahdyar Aghajani, Ash Koosha

Cannes (Un Certain Regard): Un Certain Regard - Special Jury Prize, London (Film on the Square), AFI FEST, São Paulo, !F Istanbul (Hit Films), SXSW (24 Beats Per Second), !F Istanbul (Retrospective)

Synopsis

As they are being released from prison, a young woman and a young man, both musicians, decide to assemble a band. They travel Tehran meeting with other underground musicians and try to convince them to leave Iran. Not having any chance to play in Tehran, they dream of leaving to play music in Europe. But that’s hard to make happen without money and a passport… —Cannes Film Festival

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Bahman Ghobadi

Bahman Ghobadi (Kurdish: به‌همه‌ن قوبادی) is an Iranian film director of Kurdish ethnicity. He was born on February 1, 1969 in Baneh, Iranian Kurdistan. Ghobadi belongs to the so called “new wave” of Iranian cinema.

He was born in Baneh, in northwestern Kurdistan Province of Iran. His family moved to Sanandaj in 1981. Ghobadi received a Bachelor of Arts in film directing from the Iranian Broadcasting College. After a brief career in industrial photography, Ghobadi began making short 8 mm films. His documentary Life In Fog won numerous awards. Bahman Ghobadi was assistant director on Abbas Kiarostami’s The Wind Will Carry Us.

Bahman Ghobadi founded Mij Film in 2000, a company with the aim of production of films in Iran about its different ethnic groups. His first feature film was A Time for Drunken Horses (2000), the first Kurdish film produced in Iran. The film won Caméra d’Or at Cannes Film Festival. His second feature was Marooned in Iraq (2002), which brought him the… read more

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Don't Get Nasty Brother

10Jan12

OK, todo este tiempo pensé que la película era un documental y aunque mantiene algo de ese enfoque, saber que todo era una puesta en escena como que me quitó un poco de interés. Sin embargo a nivel de descubrimiento está muy bien, sobre todo en la parte musical. Nunca había escuchado heavy metal persa, por ejemplo. El tema da para mucho más me gustaría ver esto pero verdaderamente en un documental.

Kursat Ozenc

21Nov11

beautiful yet sad, you will feel being filled w energy..

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.AGNES.

14Aug11

No One Knows About Persian Cats delivers a very interesting concept. While the main characters search for the musicians who are going to be part of their band, the audience gets to know the Iranian underground music and through what seems like music vids. The movie deserves a 3.5 because of the concept, but still it doesn't make it a great movie.

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Shameless

6Jun11

Two words........Yellow Dogs.

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Podcast. Bahman Ghobadi, Roxana Saberi and Obash of The Yellow Dogs

By David D'Arcy on April 26, 2010

No One Knows about Persian Cats, shot unofficially in Tehran in 2008 in 17 days and then finished in Germany, is the story of two Iranian

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Fassbinder, Ghobadi, "Johannesburg," Gordon, Tanner, Crossroads, More

By David Hudson on April 14, 2010

"There are movies that make news and movies that are news," begins J Hoberman in the Voice. "World on a Wire is one of the latter. Suddenly

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Bahman Ghobadi and Abbas Kiarostami, Events, Issues, DVDs

By David Hudson on January 12, 2010

Conan O'Brien's rousing open letter to the "People of Earth" is all the rage over the wires and in the ether at the moment, but there's another

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NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATS Review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
[Originally posted for its SXSW showing, this review reappears here on the eve of the film’s North American release.]Kurdish Iranian filmmaker, Bahman Ghobadi is known for his downbeat and timely cultural
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SXSW 2010: NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATS Review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
Recent years have seen a wave of films dealing with underground Islamic youth culture. Joining this group is Bahman Ghobadi’s No One Knows About Persian Cats. Based on the lives of real people, Persian
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SXSW 2010: NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATS Review

By Twitchfilm.net on June 29, 2010
Recent years have seen a wave of films dealing with underground Islamic youth culture. Joining this group is Bahman Ghobadi’s No One Knows About Persian Cats. Based on the lives of real people, Persian
read on Twitchfilm.net

NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATS Review

By Twitchfilm.net on June 29, 2010
[Originally posted for its SXSW showing, this review reappears here on the eve of the film’s North American release.]Kurdish Iranian filmmaker, Bahman Ghobadi is known for his downbeat and timely cultural
read on Twitchfilm.net

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Film review: No One Knows About Persian Cats

By Miasma on December 27, 2010

No One Knows About Persian Cats
2009
Directed by: Bahmad Ghobadi

Screened at the Milwaukee Film Festival 2010

Winner of the Special Jury Prize, Un Certain…  read review

check out these cats

By Serdar on February 20, 2010

In !fIstanbul Film Festival, With the partnership The Auteurs, this film was showed in 15 places at the same time. The director was present at the screening in Istanbul.

This was a great movie…  read review

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