Niki Karimi

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Niki Karimi
Atabai movie press conference 2020-02-07 07.jpg
Born (1971-11-10) 10 November 1971 (age 49)[1]
Tehran, Iran
NationalityIranian
OccupationActress, director, screenwriter
Years active1989–present
RelativesAunt to Roxanna Gallagher (Miss West Yorkshire 2018)

Niki Karimi (Persian: نیکی کریمی‎; born November 10, 1971) is an Iranian actress, director, and screenwriter. She's one of the most well known and successful Iranian artists.

Early life[]

Niki Karimi was born and raised in Tehran, Iran. Her parents are both from Tafresh. 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.

Career[]

Niki Karimi and Sean Penn

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

Karimi has won many awards nationally and internationally for "Sara" such as San Sebastian film festival award for best actress.[2] 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 the 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.[3]

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.[4]

In addition to the 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, a 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 Shayesteh.

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.[5]

Filmography[]

Film[]

As director[]

Year Title Notes
2020 Atabai Screened for the first time at the 38th Fajr Film Festival
2015 Jury award at Iranian Fajr International Film Festival as best screenwriter, director and producer
2011 Three awards at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema [1], Mannheim film festival award for best film
2006 A Few Days Later Script won the Rotterdam festivals Hubert Bals Fund
2005 One Night Screened at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival Un certain regard[6]
2001 To Have or Not to Have London International Film Festival

As an actress[]

Year Title Director Awards
2015 Taken Bijan Mirbagheri
2015 Wednesday, May 9 Jury diploma of honor for best Actress in Fajr Film Festival
2015 Death of Fish Jury diploma of honor for best Actress in Fajr Film Festival
2014 I'm his wife Mostafa Shayseh Nominated for best Actress in Fajr Film Festival
2010 2 Sisters Mohammad Banki
2007 Three Women Manijeh Hekmat
2007 Two Women Siroos Alvand
2006 A Few Days Later... Niki Karimi
2002 Tahmineh Milani Best Actress in Fajr Film Festival (2002)
2002 Sadra Abdollahi
2001 Ahmad Reza Motamedi Best Actress in Fajr Film Festival (2002)
2000 The Hidden Half Tahmineh Milani Best Actress in Cairo Film Festival (2001)
1999 Reza Mir-Karimi
1999 Rassoul Molagholipour
1999 Saeed Assadi
1998 Rahman Rezai
1998 Mohammad Ali Sadjadi
1998 Two Women Tahmineh Milani Best Actress in Taormina Film Fest (1999)
1997 Takhti Behrooz Afkhami
1997 Dariush Farhang
1995 Ebrahim Hatamikia
1995 Shadow-by-Shadow Ali Jakan
1995 Ebrahim Hatamikia
1993 Pari Darioush Mehrjouii
1992 Sara Darioush Mehrjouii Best Actress in San Sebastian film festival (1995), and in Nantes Film Festival (1995)
1991 Massoud Kimiaii
1990 Behrooz Afkhami Nominated for best Actress in Fajr Film Festival
1989 Jamshid Heydari

As a screenwriter[]

Year Title
2005 Escape
2001
2000 To Have or Not to Have

Home Video[]

As an actress[]

Year Title Role Director Notes
2020–2021 Aghazadeh Tina Fazlirad distributed by and
2018 Parvaneh Asadzadeh distributed in Video CD

Television Series[]

As an actress[]

Year Title Role Director Network
2015–2016 Mahboubeh Maleki IRIB TV2
2014 Shaparak Kamal Tabrizi IRIB TV3
1995 IRIB TV1
Karimi without hijab in 2008

As a translator[]

Year Title
2005 Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
1999 Songs My Mother Taught Me by Marlon Brando, Robert Lindsey

As a film critic[]

Year Title
2016 Member of Jury at 35th Istanbul Film Festival, Istanbul[7]
2016 Member of Jury at 34th Fajr International Film Festival, Tehran[8]
2015 Member of Jury at 60th Valladolid International Film Festival, spain[9]
2015 Member of Jury at 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Tallinn[10]
2015 Member of Jury at , Batumi[11]
2015 Member of Jury at 33rd Fajr International Film Festival, Tehran[12]
2014 Member of Jury at 20th Kolkata International Film Festival, India[13]
2014 Member of Jury at 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh[14]
2014 Member of Jury at , Tehran[15]
2014 Member of Jury at 12th Pune International Film Festival, India[16]
2013 Member of Jury at , Isfahan[17]
2012 Member of Jury at Abu Dhabi Film Festival
2011 Member of Jury at International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival
2009 Member of Jury at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
2008 Member of Jury at Dubai International Film Festival
2007 Member of Jury at Berlin Film Festival
2007 Member of Jury at Cannes Film Festival
2007 Member of Jury at Durban International Film Festival
2006 Head of Jury at Reykjavik International Film Festival
2005 Member of Jury at Locarno International Film Festival
2005 Member of Jury at Thessaloniki Film Festival

Awards[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "فروش NeginIran، نگین ایران". neginiran.ir.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Niki Karimi". Cannes Festival. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-08-31.
  3. ^ "Niki Karimi :: Biography". Archived from the original on 2006-04-25. Retrieved 2006-04-18.
  4. ^ Cannes Interview
  5. ^ "Don't make money from films: Iranian filmmaker Niki Karimi". November 13, 2014.
  6. ^ "Festival de Cannes: One Night". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-12-12.
  7. ^ "Niki Karimi on Istanbul Film Festival jury". tehrantimes.
  8. ^ "Fajr Film Festival announces nominations". mehrnews.
  9. ^ "Niki Karimi to judge Valladolid Intl. Filmfest". mehrnews.
  10. ^ "Niki Karimi to preside over Estonian festival jury". tehraninformer. Archived from the original on 2016-10-06. Retrieved 2016-10-05.
  11. ^ "BIAFF Surprises with New Films and Projects". georgiatoday.
  12. ^ "33rd FIFF press conference held in Tehran". mehrnews.
  13. ^ "India to Honor Niki Karimi". financialtribune.
  14. ^ "EIFF 2014 Award Juries Announced". edfilmfest.
  15. ^ "Parvin E'tesami Film Festival announces jury members". iran-daily.
  16. ^ "Niki Karimi on Indian filmfest jury". khabaronline. Archived from the original on 2014-01-24. Retrieved 2016-10-21.
  17. ^ "27th Isfahan Children Film Festival Jury - Niki Karimi". icff. Archived from the original on 2019-01-06. Retrieved 2016-10-21.
  18. ^ Jump up to: a b "Niki Karimi - Awards". IMDb. Retrieved 2007-08-31.

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