Biography
Ziad Bakri is a Palestinian actor and director. He starred in SCREWDRIVER, which enjoyed a busy festival career and was nominated for Best Film at the Venice International Film Festival, Malmo Arab Film Festival, and El Gouna Film Festival. Ziad's SCREWDRIVER won Best Film at the International Festival of Mediterranean Cinema in Montpellier (Cinemed) and the Bosphorus Film Festival. It also won Best First Work and Best Actor for Ziad's role at the Mediterranean Film Festival of Tetouan. For his ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Strangers' Case
2025
as Fathi
Over four centuries ago, William Shakespeare collaborated with others on a play about the historical figure Sir Thomas More. In it, he wrote a speech ...

The Sand Castle
2024
as Nabil
Stranded on a deserted island, a family of four scavenges for survival as their past unravels, sending them into a downward spiral of painful events.

Meet the Barbarians
2024
as Marwan
The municipality of a small Breton village has decided to welcome a family of Ukrainian refugees. To their surprise, they receive Fayad family – comin...

Mar Mama
2024
Haunted by her mother’s death and recurring attacks by Israeli forces on her city, a young girl becomes obsessed with death. To distract her, her fath...

Ganapath
2023
as John
In a dystopian future, Ganapath, a relentless and skilled vigilante, embarks on a mission to dismantle a powerful criminal empire that has gripped the...

Profeti
2023
PROPHETS is the story of an encounter and a confrontation between Sara, an independent Italian journalist who was kidnapped in Syria by ISIS while she...

The Weekend Away
2022
as Zain
When her best friend vanishes during a girls' trip to Croatia, Beth races to figure out what happened. But each clue yields another unsettling decepti...

Amira
2021
as Bassel
Amira, a 17 year old Palestinian, was conceived with the smuggled sperm of her imprisoned father, Nawar. Although their relationship since birth has b...

The Translator
2021
as Sami
A Syrian exile living in Australia returns when his brother is taken into custody by the Assad regime in 2011.

Arnoos
2021
During a normal day at a shopping square in Amman, Sami, a 15 year old spoiled naive kid, and the street-smart hustler Mahmoud, a 15 year old corn sel...

Tala'Vision
2021
Trapped in a war ridden reality, with the hope of one day playing in the neighborhood’s football field, 8 year old Tala finds solace and freedom in a ...

Give Up the Ghost
2019
as Ammar
Salam's dream of becoming a mother shatters when she finds out that she is unable to have children with her husband.

Screwdriver
2018
as Ziad
After fifteen years of imprisonment, Ziad struggles to adjust to modern Palestinian life as the hero everyone hails him to be. Unable to distinguish r...

Bonboné
2018
A Palestinian couple resorts to an unusual way to conceive as the husband is detained in an Israeli jail where visits are restricted.

Personal Affairs
2017
as Hisham
In Nazareth, an old couple lives wearily to the rhythm of the daily routine. On the other side of the border, in Ramallah, their son Tarek wishes to r...

Mare Nostrum
2016
On a Mediterranean shore, a Syrian father's decision to give his daughter a better life puts her in danger of losing it.

Blind Sun
2016
as Ashraf Idriss
Greece. A seaside resort struck by a heavy heat wave. Water is scarce and violence is ready to explode. Ashraf, a solitary immigrant, is looking afte...

Self Made
2014
as Yusuf
Self Made tells the story of two women - one Israeli, the other Palestinian- who are trapped within their respective worlds. After a mix-up at a check...

Water
2012
as Himself
Ten directors, Israeli and Palestinian embarked on a journey to create short films, fiction or documentary, inspired by water.

The Salt Fisherman
2011
Director, Writer
A fisherman lives alone. His days and nights are fraught with waiting. He rises with the sun and carries his anxieties and tools to the sea, where he ...

Miral
2010
as Helmi
A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.

Sense of Morning
2010
as Mahmoud Darwish
A man living in 1982 Beirut listens to the bombs fall and reminisces about the smell of coffee.

Zion and His Brother
2009
as George
Zion, 14, and his brother Meir, 17, are facing a crisis in their relationship after a terrible accident. They keep the secret to themselves and it hau...