We rarely think about the lives of the people around us, but more so the lives of the people who’ve come from another country completely different from our own. Man Push Cart depicts the life of Ahmad, a widower and former Pakistani rockstar, in the city of New York, just a few years after 9/11, and it’s an empathetic view, quietly witnessing the daily difficulty, paranoia, and mistrust that his life is pushed to hold due to circumstances. Writer-director Ramin Bahrani captures his life without much flourish, but it follows in the footsteps of many neorealists before him, and it works to capture the everyday reality people like Ahmad have faced. Filming this might have been challenging– passersby have heckled the cast and crew, and the production was even visited by the FBI due to calls accusing them of terrorism– but Man Push Cart is a perspective that still needs to be seen today.