A TIME FOR DRUNKEN HORSES Asian New Classics

Winner of the Camera d’Or at Cannes 2000, this first feature by Kurdish director Bohman Ghobadi (former assistant to Abbas Kiarostami) demonstrates the profound moral force and crystalline storytelling that we have come to recognize in Iranian cinema.

25 million Kurds are living in a semi-permanent war zone at the intersections of Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq. The plight of these people-survivors of multiple genocides and now forbidden to learn or speak their own language-is gradually reaching the world’s attention. Ghobadi’s film opens with the shocking realities of child labor, but the stark, matter-of-fact brutality of the narrative contrasts with the unforgettable light that pours from these children’s faces.

A TIME FOR DRUNKEN HORSES was shot with the eye of a poet and the vivid intensity of lived experience; it is an unforgettable film of ferocious spiritual beauty.