Ziad Bakri
Actor · Born March 27, 1980 (46) · Jaffa, Palestine
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 role in the French-Greek film THE BLIND SUN, which screened at several prestigious international film festivals, Ziad won the Best Actor award at Fantasporto. In 2022, he starred in the Netflix film THE WEEKEND AWAY, and in 2023, he starred in the Italian film PROFETI, directed by Alessio Gremonini, who won Best Screenplay at the Golden Globes, Italy, and starring Donato Demita and Marco Horanich. Ziad recently finished shooting THE STRANGERS' CASE, directed by Brandt Anderson whose film REFUGEE won the Jury prize at the French Rivera Film Festival and starring Omar Sy (THE INTOUCHABLES), Yasmine Al Massri (CARAMEL) and Angeliki Papoulia ( THE LOBSTER). His upcoming projects also include THE SAND CASTLE, directed by Emmy-nominated director Matty Brown and starring Nadine Labaki and child Zain Al Rafeea, who collaborate for the second time after their film CAPERNAUM, which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. Moreover, Ziad is not only an actor but also a filmmaker. He wrote and directed the short film THE SALT FISHERMAN, which played at the Dubai International Film Festival (2011) and earned him a Best Director nomination.
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Biography from TMDB.
- March 27, 1980 (46)
- Jaffa, Palestine
- Actor
- 8 on MovieCove · 28 credits in all
What are Ziad Bakri's films like?
Across their 6 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Morality.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 1 · Earnest 5
Light 0 · Serious 1 · Dark 5
Grounded 5 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 0
Gentle 0 · Charged 1 · Intense 5
Steady 0 · Shifting 5 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 5 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 1
Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 4 · Relentless 0
Casual 0 · Engaged 4 · Full focus 2
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 4
A split, not a type: Resolved 3 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 2
Roles they play
- Heroas Sami Najjar in The Translator (2020)
- Allyas Zain in The Weekend Away (2022)
- Heraldas Fathi in I Was a Stranger (2024)
- Mentoras Nabil in The Sand Castle (2024)
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet3
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous2
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Ziad Bakri's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 6 of their 8 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (3).
Subscription and free streaming for Ziad Bakri's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
28 credits, 8 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.
Madame (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
Cinema, Mon Amour (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
I Was a Stranger(2024)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all films
Janin, Jenin (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
The Sand Castle(2024)
Midcredits score: 22nd percentile of all films
Meet the Barbarians(2024)
Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all films
Mar Mama (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Ganapath (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Profeti (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
The Weekend Away(2022)
Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all films
Amira(2021)
Midcredits score: 13th percentile of all films
The Translator(2020)
Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all films
Arnoos (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Tala'Vision (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Give Up the Ghost (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Screwdriver (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Bonboné (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Personal Affairs (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Mare Nostrum (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Blind Sun (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
The Bureau(2015)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows
Self Made (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
The Salt Fisherman (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Miral(2010)
Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films
Sense of Morning (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Zion and His Brother (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
People of the Book (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
Star power in the 87th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 28 titles, 27 of them dated from 2008 to 2026; peak year 2025.
Biggest box office
I Was a Stranger (2024)
Highest rated
I Was a Stranger (2024)
Most popular right now
The Weekend Away (2022)
Film career
Peak 2025 · at the high point of their film career. Top draw in 2 MovieCove titles. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 2015Screen debut· The Bureau
- 2016First film· Blind Sun
- 2016First top-billed film· Blind Sun
Billing
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30.
How do Ziad Bakri's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 48th percentile, the median of all 7; across their 6 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 43rd percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up2
- 50th to 74th2
- 25th to 49th2
- Below 25th2
Shape of the crowd
3 of their 8 titles are Mixed.
- Universally Loved2
- Universally Panned1
- Crowd Pleaser1
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed3
Reviewers score the acting 70/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles; fans 82, detractors 35. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Ziad Bakri work with?
People who share at least 2 of Ziad Bakri's MovieCove titles; Saleh Bakri shares the most, 2.
- Saleh BakriShared titles: I Was a Stranger (2024), Amira (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Saleh Bakri
- Ossama BawardiShared titles: I Was a Stranger (2024), The Translator (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Ossama Bawardi
