| No One Knows About Persian Cats | |
| Director: | Bahman Ghobadi |
| Producer: | Bahman Ghobadi |
| Starring: | Hamed Behdad Ashkan Kooshanejad Negar Shaghaghi |
| Music: | Ashkan Kooshanejad Mahdyar Aghajani |
| Cinematography: | Turaj Aslani |
| Editing: | Haydeh Safi-Yari |
| Studio: | Mij Film |
| Runtime: | 106 minutes |
| Country: | Iran |
| Language: | Persian |
No One Knows About Persian Cats (Persian: کسی از گربههای ایرانی خبر نداره|italic=yes|Kasi az Gorbehaye Irani Khabar Nadareh) is a 2009 Iranian film directed by Bahman Ghobadi produced by Wild Bunch. The film offers the perspective of Iran as it explores its underground rock scene. It won the Special Jury Prize Ex-aequo in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
The film follows two young musicians (Ashkan Kooshanejad and Negar) as they form a band and prepare to leave Iran shortly after being released from prison. The pair befriends a man named Nader (Hamed Behdad), an underground music enthusiast and producer who helps them travel around Tehran and its surrounding areas in order to meet other underground musicians possibly interested in forming a band and later leaving the country.
Limited release: Curzon Soho and key cities[3]
Its first official screening was at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize Ex-aequo in the Un Certain Regard section.
Shortly after the release of the movie, Iranian director Torang Abedian accused Ghobadi of having used many ideas for his movie from her documentary Not an Illusion, made from 2003 to 2008 and released in the same year. According to Abedian, her camera operator got a call from Ghobadi and left her afterwards to make the movie about the same topic with Ghobadi in a few days.[5]