Sohrab Bayat

You can’t help missing an outsider in the small Scottish town of Forres. And that while Bodkin Ras wants to keep his head down, because he’s on the run. In this mixture of fiction and documentary, Sohrab Bayat, who plays the title role, is the only actor. The other characters are inhabitants of Forres, who play themselves and whose striking life stories are incorporated into the script. The boundaries between reality and fiction fade and this gives the film a special atmosphere.

"Creeps From The Middle East" is an independent, non-monetized YouTube web series described as a black-and-white, relatively unscripted absurdist comedy with film noir elements. It's dark, chaotic, provocative, and often clumsily honest, blending satire, experimental storytelling, and personal narrative.It features improvised sketches and blends film noir aesthetics with explorations of cultural identity, urban life, and prejudice against Middle Eastern artists. The series stars Sina Khani as an auto-fictional version of himself, a German-Iranian comedian navigating Amsterdam and Berlin. Notable guest appearances feature Mohsen Namjoo, Stefano Keizers (Donny Ronny), Tarik Sadouma and Adelheid Roosen.