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Niki Karimi

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

Niki Karimi
نیکی کریمی
Born (1971-11-10) 10 November 1971 (age 53)
Tehran, Iran
Occupations
  • Actress
  • director
  • screenwriter
  • producer
Years active1989–present

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

Early life

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Niki Karimi was born on November 10, 1971, 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

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Niki Karimi and Sean Penn

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

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

Karimi has won many awards nationally and internationally for "Sara" such as San Sebastian film festival award for best actress.[4] 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.[5]

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.[6]

In addition to films, Karimi has also done translating work. In 1999 she released her first translation, 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 the 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.[7]

As a translator

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

As a film critic

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Year Title
2022 Member of Jury at Tribeca Film Festival[8]
2021 Head of Jury at Crime and Punishment film festival, Turkey[9]
2020 Member of Jury at Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, Istanbul
2016 Member of Jury at 35th Istanbul Film Festival, Istanbul[10]
2016 Member of Jury at 34th Fajr International Film Festival, Tehran[11]
2015 Member of Jury at 60th Valladolid International Film Festival, spain[12]
2015 Head of Jury at 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Tallinn[13]
2015 Member of Jury at 10th Batumi International Art-house Film Festival, Batumi[14]
2015 Member of Jury at 33rd Fajr International Film Festival, Tehran[15]
2014 Member of Jury at 20th Kolkata International Film Festival, India[16]
2014 Head of Jury at 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh[17]
2014 Member of Jury at 4th International Parvin E'tesami Film Festival, Tehran[18]
2014 Member of Jury at 12th Pune International Film Festival, India[19]
2013 Member of Jury at 27th Isfahan International Children Film Festival, Isfahan[20]
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[21]

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Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Director Notes Ref(s)
1990 Temptation Gohar Jamshid Heydari [23]
1991 The Bride Mahin Nazeri Behrouz Afkhami [24]
1993 The Wolf's Trail Negin Masoud Kimiai [25]
Sara Sara Dariush Mehrjui [26]
1995 The Scent of Joseph's Shirt Shirin Ebrahim Hatamikia
Pari Pari Dariush Mehrjui
1997 Wind and Poppy Ziaeddin Dori
Minoo Watch Tower Minoo Ebrahim Hatamikia
Shadow by Shadow Gila Ali Zhekan
Psycho Maryam Dariush Farhang
1998 Jahan Pahlavan Takhti Director's wife Ali Hatami, Behrouz Afkhami
1999 Eve's Red Apple Neda Saeed Asadi
Two Women Fereshteh Tahmineh Milani
Girls in Expectancy Roshanak Rahman Rezaei
The Afflicted Generation Rasoul Mollagholipour
2000 The Mix Dariush Mehrjui
Actor Roya Mohammad Ali Sadjadi
2001 ABC Africa Abbas Kiarostami as assistant director
A Thousand Women Like Me Shahrzad Ali Karimi
The Hidden Half Fereshteh Tahmineh Milani
To Have or Not to Have Niki Karimi also screenwriter
2003 The Fifth Reaction Fereshteh Tahmineh Milani
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Yalda Ahmad Reza Motamedi
2004 The Ransomer Rana Farzad Motamen
2005 One Night Niki Karimi also screenwriter
Top of the Tower Leila Kiumars Pourahmad
Gone with the Wind Tahmineh Sadra Abdollahi
2006 Wedding Dinner Mitra Ebrahim Vahidzadeh
Havana File Zoya Fani Alireza Raeesian
A Few Days Later Shahrzad Niki Karimi also screenwriter
Who Killed Amir? Ziba Zibadoost Mehdi Karampour
Stars 2: She's a Star Farzaneh Mashreghi Fereydoun Jeyrani
2007 The Other Wife Mahtab Sirus Alvand
The Music Box Ali's mother Farzad Motamen
2008 Three Women Minoo Manijeh Hekmat
Women Are Angels Nazanin Shahram Shah Hosseini
Mr. Seven Colors Firoozeh Shahram Shah Hosseini
Shirin Woman in Audience Abbas Kiarostami
2009 Hot Chocolate Banoo Hamed Kolahdari
24th Street Nazanin Saeed Asadi
Trial on the Street Nasim Masoud Kimiai
The Day Goes and the Night Comes Marjan Omid Bonakdar, Keyvan Alimohammadi
2010 Hey to Love Mitra Asghar Naeemi
Democracy in Daylight Ms. Ehsani Ali Atshani
Two Sisters Mahtab Mohammad Banki
2011 The Playfellow Naghmeh Gholam Reza Ramezani
Wakefulness Yasaman Farzad Motamen
Final Whistle Sahar Niki Karimi also screenwriter, producer
Crime Atefeh Masoud Kimiai
Along the City Fariba Ali Atshani
The Princess of the Moon Elham Gharehkhani, Mehrtash Mahdavi
Calm Streets The Reporter Kamal Tabrizi
2012 The Presiden's Cell Phone Mrs. Tayebi Ali Atshani
I'm His Wife Shahla Mostafa Shayesteh
2013 Annunciation to a Third Millennium Citizen Mrs. Safaii Mohammad Hadi Karimi
2014 Raspberry Homa Saman Salur
Life Is Elsewhere Shahrzad Manouchehr Hadi
2015 Wednesday, May 9 Leila Vahid Jalilvand
Night Shift Roya Niki Karimi also screenwriter, producer
Death of the Fish Tahmineh Rouhollah Hejazi
2016 Stolen Mina Bijan Mirbagheri
2017 Human Comedy Mohammad Hadi Karimi
Azar Azar Mohammad Hamzei also producer [27]
Maybe It Wasn’t Love Saeed Ebrahimifar [28]
2018 The Truck Kambuzia Partovi [29]
Astigmatism Mrs. Namiri Majid Reza Mostafavi [30]
2020 Atabai Niki Karimi also screenwriter, producer [31]
2022 Squad of Girls Yeganeh Kamayi Monir Gheidi [32]
Until Tomorrow Ali Asgari as producer [33]
Laleh Asadollah Niknejad [34]
TBA A Time in Eternity Mehdi Norouzian as producer [35]

Web

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Year Title Role Director Platform Ref(s)
2018 Forbidden Parvaneh Asadzadeh Amir Pourkian Video CD [36]
2020–2021 Blue Blood Tina Fazlirad Behrang Tofighi Namava, Filimo [37]
2022 Rebel Shima Mohammad Kart Filimo [38]
2023–2024 Seven Kiarash Asadizadeh Tamashakhaneh
TBA Poker Reza Dadooi

Television

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Year Title Role Director Notes Network Ref(s)
1995 Life Mohammad Reza A'alami TV series IRIB TV1 [39]
2015–2016 Kimia Mahboubeh Maleki Javad Afshar IRIB TV2 [40]
2023–2024 Homeland Shaparak Bahadori Kamal Tabrizi IRIB TV3 [41]

Awards and nominations

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Award Year Category Nominated Work Result Ref.
Bratislava International Film Festival 2015 Best Actress Wednesday, May 9 Won
Cairo International Film Festival 2001 Best Actress The Hidden Half Won
Cambridge Film Festival 2021 Best Fiction Feature Atabai Nominated
Cannes Film Festival 2005 Un Certain Regard One Night Nominated
Caméra d'Or Nominated
Dhaka International Film Festival 2022 Best Feature Film – Women Film Maker's Section Atabai Nominated
Dubai International Film Festival 2011 Best Feature Film Final Whistle Nominated
Fajr Film Festival 1991 Best Actress in a Leading Role The Bride Nominated
1993 Sara Nominated
1995 Pari Nominated
1998 Psycho Nominated
1999 Two Women Honorary Diploma
2003 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Fifth Reaction Won
2015 Special Jury Prize Night Shift Honorary Diploma
2020 Best Film Atabai Nominated
Best Director Nominated
Fribourg International Film Festival 2007 Grand Prix A Few Days Later Nominated
Hafez Awards 1998 Best Actress – Motion Picture Psycho Won
1999 Two Women Won
2001 The Hidden Half Won
2003 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Nominated
2016 Wednesday, May 9 Nominated
2023 Best Motion Picture Atabai Nominated [42]
Best Director – Motion Picture Nominated
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture Nominated
Hong Kong Asian Film Festival 2007 New Talent Award A Few Days Later Nominated
Iran Cinema Celebration 1999 Best Actress in a Leading Role Two Women Won
2000 The Afflicted Generation Nominated
2001 The Hidden Half Nominated
2003 The Fifth Reaction Nominated
2007 Stars 2: She's a Star Nominated
Iranian Cinema Directors' Great Celebration 2022 Best Film Director Atabai Nominated
Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association 2015 Best Actree in a Leading Role Wednesday, May 9 Nominated
2022 Best Film Atabai Won
Best Director Won
Best Screenplay Won
Nantes Three Continents Festival 1993 Best Actress Sara Won
San Sebastián International Film Festival 1993 Best Actress Sara Won
Sofia Menar Film Festival 2022 Best Film Atabai Nominated
Taormina International Film Festival 1999 Best Actress Two Women Won
Thessaloniki Film Festival 2005 Golden Alexander One Night Nominated
Torino Film Festival 2005 Best Feature Film One Night Nominated
Special Mention Won
Vesoul Asian Film Festival 2012 Emile Guimet Award Final Whistle Won
INALCO Jury Award Won
High Schools Award Won
Golden Wheel Nominated

See also

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References

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