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Ramin Bahrani

Iranian-American director and screenwriter · United States · On the map · Directors · Born 1975 · age 51

Ramin Bahrani is an American director and screenwriter. Film critic Roger Ebert ranked Bahrani's Chop Shop (2007) as the sixth-best film of the 2000s, calling him "the new director of the decade". Bahrani was the recipient of the 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship.

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2026ZejtuneFilm, Producer2025A Little PrayerFilm, Producer2023If Dreams Were LightningFilm, Director, Producer2022The Last Days of Ptolemy GreySeries, Producer2nd ChanceFilm, 2022Director, Writer20217 PrisonersFilm, Producer2019TreadstoneSeries, Director, Producer201599 HomesFilm, Director, Writer2014Lemonade WarFilm, Director, Writer2013Sigur Rós: Valtari Film ExperimentFilm, Director2012At Any PriceFilm, Director, Writer2009Guggenheim FellowshipAward2008Chop ShopFilm, Director, Writer2006Man Push CartFilm, Director, Writer2005DogsFilm, Director1998BackgammonFilm, Director1981GheddisFilm1975Born20 March 1975

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Close ties

  • Life Itself 2014
  • Joyland 2022
  • 7 Prisoners 2021
  • The White Tiger 2021
  • Goodbye Solo 2009

Filmography 33

78 credits on file

Television 3

Media & music

Photos 1

Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship2009

About this person

Bahrani is a professor of film directing at his alma mater, the Columbia University School of the Arts.

Country
United States
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1975 · age 51