Bambirak
2024 · 14m · Norway
Directed by Zamarin Wahdat
Genres: drama
Tones: melancholic, tender
A young Afghan girl living in Norway accompanies her father as he drives a taxi, navigating the quiet tensions of diaspora life, belonging, and the invisible weight of displacement.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Wahdat locates the political inside the personal without ever raising her voice — a film about displacement and racism that works entirely through the grammar of a father-daughter story.
Sundance International Jury Prize plus a swallow metaphor — the prestige stamps say yes before the film starts. I suspect it earns them: father-daughter taxi rides through covert racism, fourteen minutes, no fat.
Sundance International Jury Prize, a quiet Dari-titled diaspora story told from inside a delivery van — Wahdat's economy here (8-year-old in a taxi, covert racism as the inciting beat) is exactly the kind of restraint that lets a 13-minute father-daughter portrait sit in the chest. Strong instinct it earns its tenderness.
Festivals
- Sundance Film Festival 2025