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Niki Karimi is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter Iranienne born on 11 november 1971 at Tehran (Iran)

Niki Karimi

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Birth name Niki Karimi
Nationality Iran
Birth 11 november 1971 (52 years) at Tehran (Iran)
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Niki Karimi (Persian: نیکی کریمی‎‎) (born November 10, 1971 in Tehran) is an Iranian actress, director, and screenwriter.

Biography

Niki Karim was born and raised in Tehran, Iran. She has been active in theater since elementary school, and has said that her early interest in film and literature inspired her to become an actress.

In 1990, she was cast as a young bride in Behrooz Afkhami's hit film The Bride.

Niki has won many awards nationally and internationally for " Sara " such as San Sebastian film festival award for best actress. She has also recently been on the jury for more than 20 renowned film festivals, including Karlovy Vary Film Festival, the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Locarno International Film Festival and Thessaloniki International Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival and also the 60th Cannes Film Festival. She was assistant of Abbas Kiarostami from 1992 to 2007.

Expanding on her career as an actor, she wrote and directed the documentary To Have or Not to Have (2001).

In 2001, she won her first award as a director in Iran's Rain film festival for her work To Have or Not to Have, which was produced by renowned Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.

Nominated at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival for her feature film directorial debut One Night (2005), she said that acting no longer satisfied her and she would like to direct more movies.

In addition to film, Karimi has also done some translating work. In 1999 she released her first translation work, Marlon Brando's biography Songs My Mother Taught Me, which she translated from English to Persian. She also translated two books by Hanif Kureishi, Pakistani-English writer .

Her third film as director, Final whistle (2011), won three awards at the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema in Vesoul, France.

She has been nominated for best actress award in Fajr Film Festival in 2011 for I Am His Wife (2011), directed by Mostafa Shaysteh.

She has been awarded recently by the jury of the Iranian Fajr Film ّFestival for her last film as best director, actress and producer. She also got a jury award for acting in two films, Wednesday, May 9 and Death of Fish.

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Filmography of Niki Karimi (13 films)

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Actress

Wednesday, May 9, 1h42
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Niki Karimi, Amir Aghaei
Roles Leila
Rating66% 3.3422753.3422753.3422753.3422753.342275
Crime
Crime (2011)
, 1h50
Directed by Masoud Kimiai
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Actors Hamed Behdad, Niki Karimi, Dariush Arjmand, Jamshid Mashayekhi
Roles Atefeh
Rating50% 2.506812.506812.506812.506812.50681
It depicts the story of a man in old Tehran trying to remain faithful to his principles and beliefs and therefore faces certain dilemmas in this regard.
Shirin
Shirin (2008)
, 1h32
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, War, Documentary, Historical
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about films
Actors Niki Karimi, Taraneh Allidousti, Golshifteh Farahani, Mahnāz Afshār, Juliette Binoche, Zahra Amir Ebrahimi
Roles Woman in audience
Rating66% 3.345013.345013.345013.345013.34501
Cent-quatorze spectateurs, essentiellement féminins, assistent à la projection de l'adaptation cinématographique d'un classique de la littérature perse du XII siècle. Ces spectateurs s'émeuvent de l'histoire d'amour qui se déroulent sous leurs yeux : le film n'apparaît dans la mise en abyme qu'à travers sa bande son et les réactions du public. Néanmoins, le réalisateur trompe le spectateur puisque les actrices n'assistent pas réellement à une représentation filmique.
To Each His Own Cinema, 1h40
Directed by Claude Lelouch, Abbas Kiarostami, Amos Gitaï, Elia Suleiman, Nanni Moretti, Takeshi Kitano, Andreï Kontchalovski, Youssef Chahine, Roman Polanski, Wim Wenders, Chen Kaige, Raoul Ruiz, Olivier Assayas, Theo Angelopoulos, Michael Cimino, Wong Kar-wai, Manoel de Oliveira, Jane Campion, Alejandro González Iñárritu, David Lynch, Gus Van Sant, Atom Egoyan, Lars von Trier, Ken Loach, Walter Salles, David Cronenberg, Zhang Yimou, Bille August, Aki Kaurismäki, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tsai Ming-liang, Raymond Depardon
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Isabelle Adjani, Anouk Aimée, Antoine Chappey, David Cronenberg, Yosra El Lozy, Taraneh Allidousti
Rating67% 3.3966453.3966453.3966453.3966453.396645
35 réalisateurs d'origines très variées (25 pays différents) ont tous mis en scène un court métrage de 3 minutes, sur le thème de la salle de cinéma. Le film en regroupe 33 puisque les frères Coen et les frères Dardenne travaillent ensemble. Celui de David Lynch ne faisait pas partie du film mais a été présenté en ouverture du festival.
A Few Days Later...
Directed by Niki Karimi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Actors Niki Karimi
Roles Shahrzad
Rating55% 2.780252.780252.780252.780252.78025
A Few Days Later..., 1h18
Directed by Niki Karimi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Niki Karimi
Roles Shahrzad
Rating55% 2.780252.780252.780252.780252.78025
Shahrzad, une jeune femme iranienne est une graphiste très occupée. Lorsque l'ex-femme de son fiancé rentre en Iran et reprend sa place, Shahrzad sent qu'elle doit réagir et prendre des décisions qui doivent changer le cours de sa vie sentimentale.
The Hidden Half, 1h43
Directed by Tahmineh Milani
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Actors Niki Karimi, Atila Pesyani, Afarin Obeysi
Roles Fereshteh
Rating68% 3.4411753.4411753.4411753.4411753.441175
The story is told through a manuscript which Fereshteh (Niki Karimi) leaves for her husband (Atila Pesiani) to read. This manuscript tells the story of her life when she was 18 years old and attending the University of Tehran. Fereshteh becomes interested in the fall of the Shah and other such political topics, and so joins a revolutionary, communist group. She gives out fliers, which was illegal as it was the Islamic Revolution period of 1978. Through the group, the young girl meets an older man, a pro-Mossadeq-era intellectual and magazine editor, Roozebeh (Mohammad Nikbin), who is intrigued by her “naive dedication to a noble cause". While government authorities inspect the university and streets of Tehran for revolutionary activists, Roozebeh presents Fereshteh with an opportunity to flee abroad to England. However, when Roozebeh’s wife finds out about the young lady, she informs her of Roozebeh’s family. Thus, when Fereshteh finds out about the intellectual’s wife and son, as well as the fact that she is a lookalike of his childhood sweetheart, she cuts all contact with him. She then marries her husband and does not inform him of her hidden past, only to reveal it to him when he tells her about the woman who is sentenced to death, whom he is interviewing for an appeal. Fereshteh does this in hopes that her husband will listen to the woman in a less critical and more understanding view, and to reveal to him her hidden half.
Two Women
Two Women (1999)
, 1h36
Directed by Tahmineh Milani
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Films about domestic violence, Political films
Actors Niki Karimi, Merila Zarei, Atila Pesyani
Roles Fereshteh
Rating66% 3.3443953.3443953.3443953.3443953.344395
The film starts at some fourteen years after Fereshteh (Niki Karimi) and Royā (Merilā Zāre'í) became friends, while studying architecture at a university in Tehran. The events in the life of Fereshteh over the course of the preceding fourteen years are revealed through a series of flashbacks that represent Feresheh's and Royā's reminiscences.
Pari
Pari (1995)
, 1h55
Directed by Dariush Mehrjui
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Niki Karimi, Ali Mosaffa, Khosrow Shakibai, Parsa Piroruzfar, Mohammad-Reza Sharifinia
Roles Pari
Rating65% 3.29573.29573.29573.29573.2957
Pari is a student of literature at a university in Tehran. She is a confident yet angry girl who is projecting her inner struggle by outwards aggression towards her tutor, her fiancé and her brother and she is on the verge of a nervous breakdown or a mental suicide.
Sara
Sara (1993)
, 1h32
Directed by Dariush Mehrjui
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Niki Karimi, Khosrow Shakibai, Amin Tarokh, Dariush Mehrjui
Roles Sara
Rating65% 3.294623.294623.294623.294623.29462
Sara is the perfect young housewife. However, when husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who gets the funds. For the next three years Sara labours secretly to pay the shady loan and save Hessam's pride... until the truth is revealed and, with it, the reality of her marriage.

Director

A Few Days Later...
Directed by Niki Karimi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Actors Niki Karimi
Rating55% 2.780252.780252.780252.780252.78025
A Few Days Later..., 1h18
Directed by Niki Karimi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Niki Karimi
Rating55% 2.780252.780252.780252.780252.78025
Shahrzad, une jeune femme iranienne est une graphiste très occupée. Lorsque l'ex-femme de son fiancé rentre en Iran et reprend sa place, Shahrzad sent qu'elle doit réagir et prendre des décisions qui doivent changer le cours de sa vie sentimentale.
One Night
One Night (2005)
, 1h18
Directed by Niki Karimi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Actors Hanieh Tavassoli
Rating58% 2.9489252.9489252.9489252.9489252.948925
Negar (Hāni'eh Tavassoli) has been kicked out of home by her mother. She is left with no choice but to spend the night walking around the streets of Tehran where she meets three men who all have different stories.
To Have or Not to Have, 45minutes
Directed by Niki Karimi
Origin Iran