Bassam Tariq
Bassam Tariq is a Pakistani-born filmmaker who has worked in both non-fiction and fiction short and feature-length forms, as well as video and television, and made his theatrical feature debut as co-director/co-producer (with Omar Mullick, who was also cinematographer) of the Pakistan-shot documentary, These Birds Walk (2013), premiering at the True False Film Festival and won the Filmmaker-to-Filmmaker Award at Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Festival, and was released by Oscilloscope Laboratories.
Tariq made four short narrative and non-fiction films in 2018 and 2019 (including Ghosts of Sugar Land, which launched at the Sundance Film Festival), as well as a segment of the anthology documentary feature about Election Day 2016 released by The Orchard, 11/8/16 (2017), and then made his feature narrative debut the following year as director/co-writer of star/co-writer/producer Riz Ahmed’s drama about a British Pakistani rapper, Mogul Mowgli (2020), with Aiysha Hart, Alyy Khan, Sudha Bhuchar, produced (in part) by Ahmed’s Left Handed Films, VICE Studios and BBC Films, and which premiered in competition in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival (where it won the FIPRESCI Prize) and was released by Strand Releasing (U.S.)/BFI Distribution (U.K.).
Tariq returned to the big screen as director/writer/producer of the acclaimed thriller, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (2026), starring Mahershala Ali, John Cho, Giancarlo Esposito, Abubakr Ali, and Tramell Tillman, produced (in part) by Orion Pictures, and which launched at the Toronto Film Festival and was released wide by Amazon MGM Studios.
Known For
Ghosts of Sugar Land
(2019)
These Birds Walk
(2012)
Bassam Tariq Movies
Director
Previous (2)
- 2026 |
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
Follows Latif, a devoutly religious hitman, who embarks on a desperate journey across Houston to protect his children after his wife dies, confronting forces closing in and beliefs threatening to unravel.
- 2021 |
Mogul Mowgli
A British Pakistani rapper is on the cusp of his first world tour, but is struck down by an illness that threatens to derail his big break.
Writer
Previous (1)
- 2021 |
Mogul Mowgli
A British Pakistani rapper is on the cusp of his first world tour, but is struck down by an illness that threatens to derail his big break.
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