Which director is from a country closer to the United States, Arturo Ripstein or Bahman Ghobadi?
Arturo Ripstein
Title: Ashkan Kooshanejad
Passage: Ashkan Kooshanejad, (Persian: اشکان کوشانژاد; born August 13, 1985) also known as Ash Koosha is an Iranian multi-instrumentalist composer, record producer, film director and futurist living in London, United Kingdom.  He mainly plays synthesiser, bass and guitar.  He played the lead role in an Iranian-Cannes jury prize winner docufiction film by director Bahman Ghobadi called "No One Knows About Persian Cats", which follows his band's story scouring the Iranian underground music scene trying to find musicians to play in a festival in the UK.
Title: Arturo Ripstein
Passage: Arturo Ripstein y Rosen (born December 13, 1943) is a Mexican film director.
Title: Bahman Ghobadi
Passage: Bahman Ghobadi (Persian: بهمن قبادی‎ ‎ ; Kurdish: به‌همه‌ن قوبادی / Behmen Qubadî) is an Iranian film director, producer and writer of Kurdish ethnicity.  He was born on February 1, 1969 in Baneh, Kurdistan province.  Ghobadi belongs to the "new wave" of Iranian cinema.
Arturo Ripstein Bahman Ghobadi