"Director: Bahman Ghobadi"

• No One Knows about Persian Cats | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £6.30   |  Saving you £9.69 (153.81%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Recently released from prison, two young musicians - a man and a woman - decide to form a band. Together they trawl the underworld of contemporary Tehran searching for other players.

• Turtles Can Fly | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Turtles Can Fly

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  Recently released from prison, two young musicians - a man and a woman - decide to form a band. Together they trawl the underworld of contemporary Tehran searching for other players.

• Turtles Can Fly | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £8.98   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Horror and humour honour and compassion all come to light in this powerful and compelling film about 13 year old Kak (Ebrahim) who faces life in a refugee camp on the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of the American invasion...

• Half Moon | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £33.66   |  Saving you £-20.67 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Mamo an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons he sets out for the long and troublesome journey in a derelict bus denying a recurring vision of his own death at half moon. Halfway the party halts at a small village to pick up female singer Hesho which will only add to the difficulty of the undertaking as it is forbidden for Iranian women to sing in public let alone in the company of men. A majestic landscape and a sense of premonition pervade a journey informed by experiences of oppression adventure and the transcendent power of music and set against the backdrop of Saddam Hussein's fall from power.

• A Time For Drunken Horses | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bahman Gobadi's intense quasi-documentary A Time for Drunken Horses deals with the lives of a young family of Kurds on the Iran/Iraq border. Their father has died in a landmine incident while smuggling and young Ayoub leaves school in an attempt to feed his siblings and find money for surgery on his crippled brother Madi. Things go from bad to worse: a marriage contract is reneged upon and we last see Ayoub and Madi trudging with a mule drugged against the cold with liquor through the snows of the high border hills as wolves howl in the distance. A few scenes remind us that this poverty is not an accident, but part of a system of actual and cultural oppression: soldiers frisk a group of children and confiscate exercise books; Ayoub spends money on a picture of a Western body-builder for Madi; they and their sisters spend evenings listening to a crackling transistor radio. There is a bracing purity to some of these images of stark suffering which shames much mo! re obviously artistic or popular film-making. On the DVD: A Time for Drunken Horses has trailers but no more elaborate special features. The DVD is presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen and has simple but effective Dolby Stereo sound. --Roz Kaveney