Director · Screenwriter · Editor · Producer · 1975

Ramin Bahrani

2: briefs
13:00: average
26 min: in total

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Chop Shop

Ramin Bahrani · 2007

Chop Shop follows twelve-year-old Ale as he works, saves, and schemes in Willets Point, Queens — a scrap-metal district where auto repair shops double as homes and survival is measured in hubcaps, candy bars, and stolen DVDs. Directed by Ramin Bahrani with non-professional actors and handheld digital footage, it is a neorealist portrait of resourcefulness without recourse, ambition without infrastructure, and care without safety nets.

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Man Push Cart

Ramin Bahrani · 2005

Man Push Cart (2005) is a spare, observant American drama about Ahmad, a Pakistani immigrant who sells coffee and bagels from a pushcart in Midtown Manhattan. Directed and written by Ramin Bahrani, it follows a week in his life — marked by physical labour, quiet encounters, and unspoken grief — using natural light, non-professional acting, and minimal music. It avoids exposition, melodrama, and resolution, favouring duration and detail as tools of empathy.