Omid Iranikhah
Birthday: 1998-03-09
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Biography: Iranian-American writer/director and actor Omid Iranikhah focuses on stories dealing with the Iranian and Iranian Diaspora experience. His 2021 narrative short film "Don't Be a Stranger," a meditative drama about an Iranian couple's struggle to accept their drug addict son back into their life, played at a number of film festivals and won the Jury Award for Best Short Film at Accord CineFest. His accolades also include winning the Michael Collyer Fellowship in Screenwriting and placing as a semifinalist in the Academy Nicholl Fellowships for his Iran-set folk horror screenplay.
Movies
The Sovereign
Still proudly flaunting its progressive values, a young independent nation prepares to celebrate an ...
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Coffee With Baba
An Iranian-American twentysomething and his father meet for coffee, only to find themselves clashing...
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Charlie
A dementia-stricken war veteran mistakes his put-upon son for a lover from his past, forcing both me...
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Don't Be a Stranger
An Iranian couple is paid an unexpected visit by their estranged, drug-addict son one morning, only ...
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Farsi with Maman
An Iranian-American man recounts his complicated relationship with the native language he forgot....
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Coffee with Mandy
When his estranged ex-girlfriend Mandy returns from volunteering as a nurse in Gaza, Amin is forced ...
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A Passage of Silence
Working surveillance for the oppressive regime in Iran, a father’s loyalty is tested when his son ne...
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