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AVAZHAYÉ SARZAMINÉ MADARIYAM
IRAN 2001, 103', col., 35mm
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Script: Bahman Ghobadi
Screenplayer: Bahman Ghobadi
Cinematography: Saed Nikzat, Shahriar Assadi
Editing: Hayedeh Safiari
Music: Arsalam Kamkar
Cast: Shahab Hosseyni, Alahmorad Rashtiani, Faygeh Mohamadi
Production: Bahman Ghobadi
Distribuzione: Mamad Haghighat

During the Iran-Iraq war, a grupo of Iranian-Kurd musicians set out in search of Hanareh, a singer with a magical voice who corssed over the border into Iraqui Kurdistan…

DIRECTOR
Bahman Ghobadi was born in 1969 in Bané, Iranian Kurdistan. During his studies, has worked in radio before joining a group of young amateur filmakers, with whom he started to make short films. He them moved to the capital to study cinema. Between 1995 and 1999 he directed ten short films which won a number of prizes in various national and international Festivals. In 1999 he worked as first assistant to Abbas Kiarostami during the shooting of The Wind Will Carry Us and was one of the main actors of Samira Makhmalbaf's Blackboards. A Time For Drunken Horses (Zamani Baraye) marks his debut in directing feature films; this is also the first Kurdo-Iranian in the history of cinema, winning the Camera D'Or and the Prix de la Jeunesse at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and also winning Cervino International Film Festival las year in the category Feature Film s Competition. Avazhayé Sarzaminé Madariyam has been entered at 2002 Cannes Film Festival in the section Un certain Regard.