Ramin Bahrani

Ramin Bahrani

Nascimento : 1975-03-20, North Carolina, USA

História

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.

Perfil

Ramin Bahrani

Filmes

A Little Prayer
Executive Producer
Tammy and husband David lead a quiet life in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, sharing a home with David’s parents, Bill and Venida. David and Bill work together and have always been closely involved in each other’s lives. When Bill begins to suspect that David is straying in his marriage, he is drawn into a relationship minefield, caught between wanting to protect his amicable daughter-in-law and trying to understand his impulsive son. As Bill confronts the limits of patriarchal influence, he is also forced to reckon with disheartening behavioral patterns that may be transcending generations.
Joyland
Executive Producer
As a patriarchal family yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for a transgender starlet.
2nd Chance
Writer
In 1969, bankrupt pizzeria owner Richard Davis invented the modern-day bulletproof vest. To prove that it worked, he shot himself — point-blank — 192 times.
2nd Chance
Producer
In 1969, bankrupt pizzeria owner Richard Davis invented the modern-day bulletproof vest. To prove that it worked, he shot himself — point-blank — 192 times.
2nd Chance
Director
In 1969, bankrupt pizzeria owner Richard Davis invented the modern-day bulletproof vest. To prove that it worked, he shot himself — point-blank — 192 times.
7 Prisioneiros
Producer
O jovem Mateus sai do interior em busca de uma oportunidade de trabalho em um ferro velho de São Paulo comandado por Luca. Chegando lá, acaba se tornando vítima de um sistema de trabalho análogo à escravidão. Mas, como Mateus aprende com o tempo, até seu patrão tem um patrão. Se ele quiser encontrar uma saída, até onde ele deverá ir o que deverá se tornar?
Entre Águas
Producer
Um homem enfrenta um agonizante dilema. Ele precisará escolher entre seguir a tradição de pesca de sua família, num barco passado de geração em geração, ou se arriscar no mercado clandestino para sobreviver e sustentar sua família.
Talking Heads 2021
Self
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?”.
O Tigre Branco
Editor
Balram Halwai (Adarsh ​​Gourav) narra sua ascensão épica e sombriamente humorística de pobre aldeão a empresário de sucesso na Índia moderna. Astuto e ambicioso, nosso jovem herói abre caminho para se tornar o motorista de Ashok (Rajkumar Rao) e Pinky (Priyanka Chopra-Jonas), que acabam de retornar da América. A sociedade treinou Balram para ser uma coisa – um servo – então ele se torna indispensável para seus mestres ricos. Mas depois de uma noite de traição, ele percebe o quão corruptos eles serão para prendê-lo. À beira de perder tudo, Balram se rebela contra um sistema fraudulento e desigual para se levantar e se tornar um novo tipo de mestre.
O Tigre Branco
Screenplay
Balram Halwai (Adarsh ​​Gourav) narra sua ascensão épica e sombriamente humorística de pobre aldeão a empresário de sucesso na Índia moderna. Astuto e ambicioso, nosso jovem herói abre caminho para se tornar o motorista de Ashok (Rajkumar Rao) e Pinky (Priyanka Chopra-Jonas), que acabam de retornar da América. A sociedade treinou Balram para ser uma coisa – um servo – então ele se torna indispensável para seus mestres ricos. Mas depois de uma noite de traição, ele percebe o quão corruptos eles serão para prendê-lo. À beira de perder tudo, Balram se rebela contra um sistema fraudulento e desigual para se levantar e se tornar um novo tipo de mestre.
O Tigre Branco
Director
Balram Halwai (Adarsh ​​Gourav) narra sua ascensão épica e sombriamente humorística de pobre aldeão a empresário de sucesso na Índia moderna. Astuto e ambicioso, nosso jovem herói abre caminho para se tornar o motorista de Ashok (Rajkumar Rao) e Pinky (Priyanka Chopra-Jonas), que acabam de retornar da América. A sociedade treinou Balram para ser uma coisa – um servo – então ele se torna indispensável para seus mestres ricos. Mas depois de uma noite de traição, ele percebe o quão corruptos eles serão para prendê-lo. À beira de perder tudo, Balram se rebela contra um sistema fraudulento e desigual para se levantar e se tornar um novo tipo de mestre.
Sócrates
Producer
Depois da morte da mãe que o criou, o jovem Sócrates precisa tentar sobreviver sozinho em São Paulo. A dura realidade coloca seus valores e ideais à prova, e ele precisa enfrentar o luto, a miséria e o preconceito em relação à sua sexualidade.
Blood Kin
Producer
Reflexões de Red Oak, Texas, onde um filho adolescente assassinou seu pai.
Blood Kin
Writer
Reflexões de Red Oak, Texas, onde um filho adolescente assassinou seu pai.
Blood Kin
Director
Reflexões de Red Oak, Texas, onde um filho adolescente assassinou seu pai.
Fahrenheit 451
Screenplay
Em um futuro opressivo dominado pela tecnologia, a posse de livros e a literatura são proibidas. Guy Montag (Michael B. Jordan) é um bombeiro, sua principal missão é queimar todos os livros que existem até que não sobre mais nenhum deles. No entanto, ele conhece Clarisse McClellan (Sofia Boutella), uma jovem misteriosa que faz com que ele comece a questionar suas atitudes e todo o sistema vigente.
Fahrenheit 451
Executive Producer
Em um futuro opressivo dominado pela tecnologia, a posse de livros e a literatura são proibidas. Guy Montag (Michael B. Jordan) é um bombeiro, sua principal missão é queimar todos os livros que existem até que não sobre mais nenhum deles. No entanto, ele conhece Clarisse McClellan (Sofia Boutella), uma jovem misteriosa que faz com que ele comece a questionar suas atitudes e todo o sistema vigente.
Fahrenheit 451
Director
Em um futuro opressivo dominado pela tecnologia, a posse de livros e a literatura são proibidas. Guy Montag (Michael B. Jordan) é um bombeiro, sua principal missão é queimar todos os livros que existem até que não sobre mais nenhum deles. No entanto, ele conhece Clarisse McClellan (Sofia Boutella), uma jovem misteriosa que faz com que ele comece a questionar suas atitudes e todo o sistema vigente.
Trabalhando para o Inimigo
Editor
Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) perdeu a sua casa por conta da hipoteca e teve que se mudar para um pobre hotel com sua mãe (Laura Dern) e seu filho pequeno . Desesperado para reaver seu lar, ele aceita trabalhar com o imoral agente imobiliário Rick Carver (Michael Shannon), que foi a pessoa responsável pela sua perda. Logo, ele tem que ajudar Carver a expulsar outras pessoas e a desviar dinheiro do governo. Enquanto seus problemas financeiros desaparecem, a consciência de Nash passa a atormentá-lo.
Trabalhando para o Inimigo
Producer
Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) perdeu a sua casa por conta da hipoteca e teve que se mudar para um pobre hotel com sua mãe (Laura Dern) e seu filho pequeno . Desesperado para reaver seu lar, ele aceita trabalhar com o imoral agente imobiliário Rick Carver (Michael Shannon), que foi a pessoa responsável pela sua perda. Logo, ele tem que ajudar Carver a expulsar outras pessoas e a desviar dinheiro do governo. Enquanto seus problemas financeiros desaparecem, a consciência de Nash passa a atormentá-lo.
Trabalhando para o Inimigo
Story
Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) perdeu a sua casa por conta da hipoteca e teve que se mudar para um pobre hotel com sua mãe (Laura Dern) e seu filho pequeno . Desesperado para reaver seu lar, ele aceita trabalhar com o imoral agente imobiliário Rick Carver (Michael Shannon), que foi a pessoa responsável pela sua perda. Logo, ele tem que ajudar Carver a expulsar outras pessoas e a desviar dinheiro do governo. Enquanto seus problemas financeiros desaparecem, a consciência de Nash passa a atormentá-lo.
Trabalhando para o Inimigo
Writer
Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) perdeu a sua casa por conta da hipoteca e teve que se mudar para um pobre hotel com sua mãe (Laura Dern) e seu filho pequeno . Desesperado para reaver seu lar, ele aceita trabalhar com o imoral agente imobiliário Rick Carver (Michael Shannon), que foi a pessoa responsável pela sua perda. Logo, ele tem que ajudar Carver a expulsar outras pessoas e a desviar dinheiro do governo. Enquanto seus problemas financeiros desaparecem, a consciência de Nash passa a atormentá-lo.
Trabalhando para o Inimigo
Director
Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) perdeu a sua casa por conta da hipoteca e teve que se mudar para um pobre hotel com sua mãe (Laura Dern) e seu filho pequeno . Desesperado para reaver seu lar, ele aceita trabalhar com o imoral agente imobiliário Rick Carver (Michael Shannon), que foi a pessoa responsável pela sua perda. Logo, ele tem que ajudar Carver a expulsar outras pessoas e a desviar dinheiro do governo. Enquanto seus problemas financeiros desaparecem, a consciência de Nash passa a atormentá-lo.
Lemonade War
Director
In an idyllic suburban neighborhood, Jerry runs his big business lemonade stand and has the market cornered, until ten-year-old Addie opens her own stand across the street. Competition equals war, and both sides use (and abuse) a government regulator to try and win. In the end, one special customer will decide their fate.
Lift You Up
Producer
Glyn Stewart inspects eggs at a food bank in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He volunteers and helps people. He wonders about his life, his love, his death. Glyn Stewart answers the age-old question: which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Lift You Up
Writer
Glyn Stewart inspects eggs at a food bank in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He volunteers and helps people. He wonders about his life, his love, his death. Glyn Stewart answers the age-old question: which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Lift You Up
Director
Glyn Stewart inspects eggs at a food bank in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He volunteers and helps people. He wonders about his life, his love, his death. Glyn Stewart answers the age-old question: which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Life Itself - A Vida de Roger Ebert
Self - Filmmaker
O crítico de cinema Roger Ebert foi um dos nomes mais conhecidos de seu ofício. Vencedor do prêmio Pulitzer, era um rosto popular devido a seu longevo programa de televisão e à criação dos “thumbs up” para classificar um bom filme. Este documentário mostra os últimos meses de vida de Ebert, ao lado de sua esposa Chaz e de sua família, com seu espírito batalhador e seu bom humor, na luta contra um câncer que o impediu de falar.
Sigur Rós: Valtari Film Experiment
Director
Sigur Rós have given a dozen film makers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever comes into their head when they listen to songs from the band's album Valtari. The idea is to bypass the usual artistic approval process and allow people utmost creative freedom. These 16 films are the result. Sad, funny, beautiful and, occasionally, plain bewildering, they represent just some of the available emotional responses to this most contemplative album.
A Qualquer Preço
Screenplay
Filho de um rico agricultor, Dean Whipple (Zac Efron) sonha em se tornar um grande piloto de automóvel. No entanto, suas ambições devem ser revistas quando a fazenda familiar é alvo de uma investigação policial, colocando pai e filho em uma rota de colisão que ameaça todo o equilíbrio e o futuro sonhado pela família.
A Qualquer Preço
Director
Filho de um rico agricultor, Dean Whipple (Zac Efron) sonha em se tornar um grande piloto de automóvel. No entanto, suas ambições devem ser revistas quando a fazenda familiar é alvo de uma investigação policial, colocando pai e filho em uma rota de colisão que ameaça todo o equilíbrio e o futuro sonhado pela família.
Plastic Bag
Editor
A plastic bag, thrown out in the trash, attempts to find his way back to his owner and along the way discovers the world.
Plastic Bag
Producer
A plastic bag, thrown out in the trash, attempts to find his way back to his owner and along the way discovers the world.
Plastic Bag
Story
A plastic bag, thrown out in the trash, attempts to find his way back to his owner and along the way discovers the world.
Plastic Bag
Screenplay
A plastic bag, thrown out in the trash, attempts to find his way back to his owner and along the way discovers the world.
Plastic Bag
Director
A plastic bag, thrown out in the trash, attempts to find his way back to his owner and along the way discovers the world.
Goodbye Solo
Editor
A man planning to commit suicide hires a taxi driver to take him to his jumping-off point.
Goodbye Solo
Producer
A man planning to commit suicide hires a taxi driver to take him to his jumping-off point.
Goodbye Solo
Screenplay
A man planning to commit suicide hires a taxi driver to take him to his jumping-off point.
Goodbye Solo
Director
A man planning to commit suicide hires a taxi driver to take him to his jumping-off point.
Chop Shop
Editor
Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, young Alejandro struggles to make a better life for himself and his 16-year-old sister, Isamar.
Chop Shop
Writer
Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, young Alejandro struggles to make a better life for himself and his 16-year-old sister, Isamar.
Chop Shop
Director
Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, young Alejandro struggles to make a better life for himself and his 16-year-old sister, Isamar.
Man Push Cart
Screenplay
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.
Man Push Cart
Editor
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.
Man Push Cart
Producer
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.
Man Push Cart
Director
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.
Dogs
Director
Stray dogs in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Strangers
Kaveh Dalaki
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.
Strangers
Casting Director
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.
Strangers
Producer
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.
Strangers
Writer
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.
Strangers
Director
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.
Backgammon
Director
Backgammon tells the tale of a young Iranian American girl who desperately wants to play backgammon with her stubborn grandfather who has recently arrived from Iran. Within the circle of a family gathering, the film brings together a subtle yet compelling story of generational conflicts and cultural identity.
Amnesty
Screenplay
Set in Australia, Danny, an undocumented immigrant who cleans houses, realizes that he has information about the murder of one of his employers. Over the course of one tense summer day, Danny plays a cat-and-mouse game with the man he suspects to be the murderer.
Amnesty
Director
Set in Australia, Danny, an undocumented immigrant who cleans houses, realizes that he has information about the murder of one of his employers. Over the course of one tense summer day, Danny plays a cat-and-mouse game with the man he suspects to be the murderer.