Man Push Cart

Man Push Cart (2006) is a debut feature you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Ramin Bahrani — shot on the actual predawn streets of Manhattan in a near-documentary style that has no interest in making the city look romantic.

Ahmad was a rock star in Pakistan. Now he hauls a steel food cart through empty midtown blocks every night to be ready for the breakfast rush, selling coffee and donuts to people who never learn his name. A chance connection with a young Spanish woman and a compatriot who remembers his old life opens a crack of possibility. Bahrani keeps the camera close and drops the score entirely; the city's indifference does all the work a soundtrack would try to do. Stream Man Push Cart online on iFILM.