Niki Karimi
Birthday: 1971-11-11 Place of Birth: Tehran, Iran
Synopsis
Niki Karimi is an actress and director who was born in 1971 in Tehran, Iran. From her first activities in the cinema, we can name "Bride" directed by Behrouz Afkhami. She has also won the Crystal Simorgh for Best Actress in Fajr Film Festival for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ahmadreza Motamedi and "The Fifth Reaction" by Tahmineh Milani. She has also been featured in "Night Shift", "One Night" and "A Few Days Later" as director. Among her other cinematic works "Sara" by Dariush Mehrjui, "Night and Day" by Omid Bankdar and Keyvan Ali-Mohammadi's, "Who killed Amir?" by Mehdi Karampour and "Democracy In Day Light "by Ali Atashani can be named.
Acting
Squad Of Girls
The story shows a different point of view of Iraq's invasion since it's narrated by self sacrificing fearless women who reach the army fortress in order to bring back weapons and ammunitions to stand against the enemy.
Shirin
A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.
Sara
Sara is the perfect young housewife. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who works for the funds. For the next three years she labors secretly to pay the shady loan shark and save Hessam - until the truth is revealed and with it, the reality of her marriage.
