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Mira Nair

Mira Nair

Indian film director
October 15, 1957 (66 years old)
U.S. 2016. Biography by Mira Nair with Madina Nalwanga, David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong'o. With the encouragement of her instructor, a preteen girl from a rural Ugandan village becomes an internationally renowned chess champion.
Runtime: 124 min.
U.S. 2012. Thriller by Mira Nair with Riz Ahmed, Liev Schreiber, Kate Hudson. A Pakistani man who once lived in the United States is interviewed by an American journalist who suspects him of being involved in the kidnapping of a fellow countryman by Islamists.
Runtime: 130 min.
U.S. 2009. Biography by Mira Nair with Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor. The story of American Amelia Earheart, a pioneer of civil aviation, who disappeared in the South Pacific in 1937 during a flight around the Earth.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 2009. Sketches by Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Randy Balsmeyer, Allen Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Jiang Wen, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner with Hayden Christensen, Andy Garcia, Rachel Bilson. A journey of love through the Big Apple, filled with encounters with a different people.
Runtime: 103 min.
Fr. 2008. by Jane Campion, Gael Garcia Bernal, Jan Kounen, Mira Nair, Gaspar Noé, Abderrahmane Sissako, Wim Wenders. 8 filmmakers share in as many short stories their concerns about progress, setbacks and challenges facing our planet.
U.S. 2006. Psychological drama by Mira Nair with Kal Penn, Tabu, Irrfan Khan. By wanting to change his name, a young New York architect of Indian origin comes into conflict with his parents, who remain attached to their traditions.
Runtime: 122 min.
U.S. 2004. Chronicle by Mira Nair with Reese Witherspoon, James Purefoy, Romola Garai. At the beginning of the 19th century, in England, a young orphan girl does everything possible to help her rise in high society.
Runtime: 137 min.
U.S. 2002. Mores drama by Mira Nair with Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis, Gena Rowlands. The trials and tribulations of two friends from a working class neighborhood in New Jersey in search of happiness and true love.
Fr. 2002. Sketches by Samira Makhmalbaf, Claude Lelouch, Youssef Chahine, Danis Tanovic, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Ken Loach, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Amos Gitaï, Mira Nair, Sean Penn, Shohei Imamura with Maryam Karimi, Emmanuelle Laborit, Nour El-Sherif. Eleven filmmakers from around the world give their vision of the September 11, 2001 attacks in 11 minutes, 9 seconds and one image.
Runtime: 133 min.
Ind. 2001. Dramatic comedy by Mira Nair with Naseeruddin Shah, Vijay Raaz, Vasundhara Das. In New Delhi, various love affairs and the digging up of painful family secrets disturb wedding preparations.
Runtime: 114 min.
Ind. 1996. Melodrama by Mira Nair with Indira Varma, Sarita Choudhury, Ramon Tikaram.
Runtime: 117 min.
U.S. 1995. Dramatic comedy by Mira Nair with Marisa Tomei, Alfred Molina, Chazz Palminteri.
Runtime: 113 min.
U.S. 1991. Mores drama by Mira Nair with Sarita Choudhury, Denzel Washington, Roshan Seth. A daughter of Indian immigrants must face the unfavorable prejudice of her family when she falls in love with a young black man.
Runtime: 118 min.
Ind. 1988. Social drama by Mira Nair with Shafik Syed, Sarfuddin Qurassi, Raju Barnard. Chased away from his family, a young boy struggles to survive in Bombay's prostitution district.
Runtime: 113 min.

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