Milos Stehlik Interviews Iranian Filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi

Iranian-Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, WBEZ film contributor Milos Stehlik, and Northwestern University professor Hamid Naficy.
Iranian-Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, WBEZ film contributor Milos Stehlik, and Northwestern University professor Hamid Naficy. Summer Haris/WBEZ
Iranian-Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, WBEZ film contributor Milos Stehlik, and Northwestern University professor Hamid Naficy.
Iranian-Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, WBEZ film contributor Milos Stehlik, and Northwestern University professor Hamid Naficy. Summer Haris/WBEZ

Milos Stehlik Interviews Iranian Filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi

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WBEZ film contributor and director at Facets Chicago, Milos Stehlik, interviews the world’s great filmmakers. Today, he chats with renowned Iranian-Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi. His “films tackle a variety of themes such as justice, dispossession and movement. Some … focus on the plight of the Kurdish people  … [and] modern-day Iran.”

Northwestern University’s Middle East and North Africa Studies program (MENA) is hosting Ghobadi for screenings and discussions on several of his films, including No One Knows About Persian Cats, showing Friday, May 25, 2018 at 7 p.m. at the Block Museum. Joining Ghobadi is Hamid Naficy, professor in Communication at Northwestern University. A leading scholar in Middle Eastern cinemas and media, Naficy will share his thoughts on Ghobadi’s craftsmanship and the current state of Iranian filmmaking.