Keywan Karimi
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| Born | کیوان کریمی 1985 (age 40–41) |
| Education | Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran |
| Occupation | Film Director |
| Years active | 2003 – present |
Keywan Karimi (Persian: کیوان کریمی ; born 21 September 1985) is an Iranian independent filmmaker of Kurdish descent. He graduated in communication studies from the University of Tehran. Karimi began his work with a series of short documentary films that critiqued life in contemporary Iran. He was sentenced to six years in prison and 223 lashes because of the content of his films.[1] He was released from prison in 2017.
Karimi later moved to Paris for three years where he worked on his new film project OMID during a residency program in Cité internationale des arts invited by Institut Français.[2] He moved to Sweden for another two years residency by Malmö Municipality. He is working on his photo archive book about Kurdistan.[3]
Karimi's film-making style is part inspired by the Situationist International movement, as well as Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem. His films examine and critique the roots of radical life in society.[4][5]
Filmography
- "Broken Border" is a documentary film about smuggling petrol at Iranian Kurdistan borders with Iraq. It won the special Juries Award in Tolfa[6] Mostremp[7] and Leiden Film Festival. It received the Best Documentary Film Award in Filofest Slovenia, FIC Vagón Mexico,[8] and received the Silver Aleph at the 13th Beirut film festival.[9]
- "The Adventure of Married Couples" has participated in more than 40 film festivals[10] such as the San Sebastian, Zurich, and Fribourg International Film Festival.[11] It won several prizes, including an award at the 18th Festival La Fila de Cortometrajes and SURrealidades Festival in Colombia.[12] This eleven-minute black and white film without dialogue is a story of the everyday life of a labouring couple based on a story by Italo Calvino.[13]
- "Writing on the City" is a 60-minute documentary film about Graffiti in Tehran. Its production began in 2012 and it was completed in August 2015. The film was shown at several film festivals such as: Punto de vista film festival (Spain), where it won a Special mention prize, Visions du Réel documentary film festival (Switzerland), Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (Argentina), Montpellier Film Festival Archived 2016-07-27 at the Wayback Machine (France). The documentary was also screened in August 2016 at the Filmes do Homem International Documentary Film Festival in Portugal.[14]
- Karimi new film cleared by revolutionary guard when he was in jail, it was in post production and archive photo of "Rashid" project was delete.
- "Drum", Karimi's first fiction film whose production began in the spring of 2016, was premiered at the competition section of the Venice International Film Festival. Drum depicts the story of a lawyer whose life got completely changed after receiving a package. All the events of the film occur in Tehran city in a dreamlike atmosphere with the black and white images. "Drum" was adapted from a book with the same name, written by Ali-Morad Fadaei-Nia.[15][16]
- "Do you know anything about Omid?" is a feature fiction film whose script Karimi worked on during his prison sentences and whose final draft he finished when in Paris. The project was selected for Cannes Film Festival for the La Fabrique du cinema section.[17] Project was present in CineMart co-production program in International Film Festival Rotterdam.[18]
