Son of renowned actor and director Mohammad Bakri, Saleh cemented his career by starring iin award-winning films like BONBONÉ; Annemarie Jacir’s WAJIB, for which he won Best Actor at the Dubai International Film Festival; COSTA BRAVA LEBANON alongside Nadine Labaki; Maryam Touzani’s festival hit THE BLUE CAFTAN alongside Lubna Azabal; Firas Khoury’s ALAM; Michel Kammoun’s BEIRUT HOLD \'EM; Brandt Andersen’s THE STRANGERS’ CASE; Farah Nabulsi’s THE TEACHER, for which he won the Best Actor Award at the third RSIFF; and BACKSTAGE by Afef Ben Mahmoud and Khalil Benkirane, which premiered at Venice and won the Cinema & Arts Award.
ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU: Headlining Cherien Dabis’ award-winning film, based on Ghassan Kanafani’s seminal novella, Bakri stars as a man navigating a perilous desert journey to reunite with his mother.
PALESTINE 36: Bakri delivered a powerful performance in Annemarie Jacir’s latest historical feature, which world-premiered at Toronto.
