Ramin Bahrani

In addition to the works featured in this program, the Iranian American writer and filmmaker is the force behind 99 Homes (2014) and Fahrenheit 451 (2018) and the recipient of the Venice Film Festival’s Critics’ Prize for Goodbye Solo.

“Ramin Bahrani is the new great American director. After three films, each a master work, he has established himself as a gifted, confident filmmaker with ideas that involve who and where we are at this time. His films pay great attention to ordinary lives that are not so ordinary at all. His subjects so far have been immigrants working hard to make a living in America.”—Roger Ebert, 2009.