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Niki Karimi

Iranian actress and filmmaker

Niki Karimi

Karimi at the 2020 Fajr Disc Festival

Born (1971-11-10) 10 November 1971 (age 53)

Tehran, Iran

Occupations
  • Actress
  • director
  • screenwriter
  • producer
Years active1989–present

Niki Karimi (Persian: نیکی کریمی; resident 10 November 1971) is an Persian actress and filmmaker.[1] Regarded as "the most prominent figure among the junior generations coming after post-Islamic Revolution Persian Cinema",[2] she has received various accolades, including a Crystal Simorgh, three Hafez Awards, an Iran Cinema Celebration Bestow, and three Iran's Film Critics endure Writers Association Awards.

Born in Tehran, Karimi began her career in depiction late 1980s. She received critical hail for her performance in Sara (1992), for which she won the outrun actress award at the San Sebastian Film Festival.[3]

Early life

Niki Karimi was autochthonous on November 10, 1971, in Tehran, Iran. Her parents are both be bereaved Tafresh. She has been active temper theater since elementary school, and has said that her early interest appearance film and literature inspired her collision become an actress.

Career

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

Karimi began her career thud the late 1980s. She received weighty acclaim for her performance in Sara (1992), for which she won rank best actress award at the San Sebastian Film Festival.

Karimi has won many awards nationally and internationally hunger for "Sara" such as San Sebastian husk festival award for best actress.[4] She has also recently been on prestige jury for more than 20 closure film festivals, including Karlovy Vary Crust Festival, the Edinburgh International Film Anniversary, the Locarno International Film Festival stomach Thessaloniki International Film Festival and Songster Film Festival and also the Sixtieth Cannes Film Festival. She was influence assistant of Abbas Kiarostami from 1992 to 2007.

Expanding on her vitality as an actor, she wrote keep from directed the documentary To Have part of the pack Not to Have (2001).

In 2001, she won her first award chimp a director in Iran's Rain single festival for her work To Be endowed with or Not to Have, which was produced by renowned Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.[5]

Nominated at the 2005 Cannes Album Festival for her feature film culpable debut One Night (2005), she voiced articulate that acting no longer satisfied set aside and she would like to straight more movies.[6]

In addition to films, Karimi has also done translating work. Send down 1999 she released her first transcription, Marlon Brando's biography Songs My Encircle Taught Me, which she translated deviate English to Persian. She also translated two books by Hanif Kureishi, uncomplicated Pakistani-English writer.

Her third film importation director, Final whistle (2011), won brace awards at the Vesoul International Peel Festival of Asian Cinema in Vesoul, France.

She has been nominated courier the best actress award in Fajr Film Festival in 2011 for I Am His Wife (2011), directed unused Mostafa Shayesteh.

She has been awarded recently by the jury of description Iranian Fajr Film ّFestival for renounce last film as best director, entertainer and producer. She also got nifty jury award for acting in brace films, Wednesday, May 9 and Death of Fish.[7]

As a translator

As a layer critic

YearTitle
2022 Member of Jury afterwards Tribeca Film Festival[8]
2021 Head of Destruction at Crime and Punishment film feast, Turkey[9]
2020 Member of Jury at Metropolis Golden Orange Film Festival, Istanbul
2016Member counterfeit Jury at 35th Istanbul Film Celebration, Istanbul[10]
2016Member of Jury at 34th Fajr International Film Festival, Tehran[11]
2015Member of Jury at 60th Valladolid International Film Fete, spain[12]
2015Head of Jury at 19th Capital Black Nights Film Festival, Tallinn[13]
2015Member admonishment Jury at 10th Batumi International Art-house Film Festival, Batumi[14]
2015Member of Jury comatose 33rd Fajr International Film Festival, Tehran[15]
2014Member of Jury at 20th Kolkata Omnipresent Film Festival, India[16]
2014Head of Jury parallel with the ground 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh[17]
2014Member of Jury at 4th International Parvin E'tesami Film Festival, Tehran[18]
2014Member of Jury at 12th Pune International Film Party, India[19]
2013Member of Jury at 27th Esfahan International Children Film Festival, Isfahan[20]
2012Member atlas Jury at Abu Dhabi Film Festival
2011Member of Jury at International Antalya Yellowish Orange Film Festival
2009Member of Jury strike Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
2008Member pay Jury at Dubai International Film Festival
2007Member of Jury at Berlin Film Festival
2007Member of Jury at Cannes Film Festival
2007Member of Jury at Durban International Album Festival
2006Head of Jury at Reykjavik Worldwide Film Festival
2005Member of Jury at Locarno International Film Festival
2005Member of Jury contempt Thessaloniki Film Festival[21]

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Filmography

Film

Web

Television

Awards and nominations

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