Ramin Bahrani

Directing

Biography

Ramin Bahrani is an American director and screenwriter. Film critic Roger Ebert listed Bahrani's film Chop Shop as the 6th best film of the decade and hailed Bahrani as "the director of the decade." Bahrani was the recipient of the prestigious 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship, and was the subject of several international retrospectives including the MoMA in New York City, Harvard University, and the La Rochelle Film Festival in France.

Filmography Movies

Acting

Talking Heads 2021MOVIE

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Talking Heads 2021

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The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.

Life Itself

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The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership with Gene Siskel, his life-altering marriage, and his brave and transcendent battle with cancer.

Strangers

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Kaveh, a young man from America, walks the roads of southern Iran searching for Dehdari, his recently deceased and estranged father's childhood home. He happens upon Abdul Reza, a thirty-year-old truck driver plagued by financial hardships and family responsibilities, who is fixing his truck by the side of the road. Kaveh hires Abdul as his guide, and together these two strangers embark on a three-day journey that leads them from a tiny village to an ancient graveyard and in search of a murderer. A journey of conflicts and juxtapositions that forces Kaveh deeper into the past, towards peace and forgiveness.

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Strangers

Kaveh Dalaki

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Blood Kin

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Reflections from Red Oak, Texas where a teenage son murdered his father.

Blood Kin

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Reflections from Red Oak, Texas where a teenage son murdered his father.

Goodbye Solo

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A man planning to commit suicide hires a taxi driver to take him to his jumping-off point.

Goodbye Solo

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A man planning to commit suicide hires a taxi driver to take him to his jumping-off point.

Goodbye Solo

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A man planning to commit suicide hires a taxi driver to take him to his jumping-off point.

Goodbye Solo

6.9(0.1K)

A man planning to commit suicide hires a taxi driver to take him to his jumping-off point.

Man Push Cart

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Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former Pakistani rock star turned immigrant, drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York. And every morning, he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. One day, however, the pattern of this harsh existence is broken by a glimmer of hope for a better life.