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Ali Karim (Persian: علی کریم, born 10 October 1977) is an Iranian film director and screenwriter.
He was born in Tehran, Iran. Producer, actor, scriptwriter and director Ali Karim was born in Tehran on 10 October 1977. He was a theatre actor before appearing in films, notably in features such as ''
Killing Mad Dogs
''Killing Mad Dogs'' ( fa, سگ كشی, romanized: Sagkoshi) is a 2001 Iranian drama film directed by Bahram Bayzai.
Plot
A businessman in late-1980s Tehran, Nasser Moasser, discovers that his partner has been laundering money and flees th ...
'' /2001 ( Bahram Beyzaï) and '' The Passenger Of Rey'' / 2001 (Davoud Mirbagheri Davoud is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
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). He then served as assistant director on various films, working especially with Dariush Mehrjui
Dariush Mehrju'i ( fa, داریوش مهرجویی , born 8 December 1939, also spelled as ''Mehrjui'', ''Mehrjoui'', Mehrjooi, and ''Mehrjuyi'') is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, producer, editor and a member of the Iranian Academy of ...
on '' Mum's Guest'' (Mehman-e Maman).
In 2008, he took part in Abbas Kiarostami's directors’ workshop during which time he made his first short, Yellow, Blue, Red. He then worked as Kiarostami's assistant on ''Shirin
Shirin ( fa, شیرین; died 628) was a Christian wife of the Sasanian King of Kings (''shahanshah'') Khosrow II (). In the revolution after the death of Khosrow's father Hormizd IV, the General Bahram Chobin took power over the Persian empire. S ...
'' before completing a second short, "The Lift". His two shorts have been successful in numerous international film festivals. On the back of his success Ali Karim finally directed his first feature, ''Pothole
A pothole is a depression in a road surface, usually asphalt pavement, where traffic has removed broken pieces of the pavement. It is usually the result of water in the underlying soil structure and traffic passing over the affected area. Water ...
'' in 2009. The film closed the Critics’ Week at the Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival he ...
the very same year.
Filmography
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