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MAN PUSH CART / Ramin Bahrani USA, 2005, 87 MIN, A FILMSPHILOS RELEASE In the indigo of a Manhattan dawn, Ahmad wheels, pushes and coaxes his vending cart to Madison Avenue, where he sells coffee and donuts. Despite regular customers, he is alone, and he does solitary work on a particularly social corner of New York City. One day he meets a successful businessman from Pakistan, who, much to Ahmad’s discomfort, recognizes him as a former celebrity back home. Written and directed by North Carolinian Ramin Bahrani and starring first-time actor Ahmad Razvi as a man fleeing his past among the urban multitudes, Man Push Cart captures the siren beauty of Midtown and the multicultural, multiethnic complexity of life in a metropolis that suddenly reneges on its comforting promise of anonymity. Ramin Bahrani was born in North Carolina to Iranian parents. After receiving his BA from Columbia University, he moved to Iran for three years and made his student thesis film, Strangers (2000). Ramin has made several short films and has received various awards, grants and fellowships for his films and screenplays. Man Push Cart is his first feature film.

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