Ziad Bakri

Ziad Bakri

1980-03-27 Jaffa, Palestine 23 Credits

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 ...

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The Strangers' Case

The Strangers' Case

2025

as Fathi

Acting

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

The Sand Castle

2024

as Nabil

5.5
Acting

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

Meet the Barbarians

2024

as Marwan

6.1
Acting

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

Mar Mama

2024

Acting

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

Ganapath

2023

as John

2.7
Acting

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

Profeti

2023

5.5
Acting

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

The Weekend Away

2022

as Zain

6.1
Acting

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

Amira

2021

as Bassel

6.4
Acting

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

The Translator

2021

as Sami

5.7
Acting

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

Arnoos

Arnoos

2021

Acting

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

Tala'Vision

2021

1.0
Acting

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

Give Up the Ghost

2019

as Ammar

5.0
Acting

Salam's dream of becoming a mother shatters when she finds out that she is unable to have children with her husband.

Screwdriver

Screwdriver

2018

as Ziad

6.8
Acting

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

Bonboné

2018

5.4
Acting

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

Personal Affairs

2017

as Hisham

4.9
Acting

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

Mare Nostrum

2016

1.0
Acting

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

Blind Sun

2016

as Ashraf Idriss

4.7
Acting

​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

Self Made

2014

as Yusuf

5.1
Acting

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

Water

2012

as Himself

4.0
Acting

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

The Salt Fisherman

The Salt Fisherman

2011

Director, Writer

1.0
Directing Writing

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

Miral

2010

as Helmi

5.7
Acting

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

Sense of Morning

2010

as Mahmoud Darwish

Acting

A man living in 1982 Beirut listens to the bombs fall and reminisces about the smell of coffee.

Zion and His Brother

Zion and His Brother

2009

as George

5.0
Acting

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...