Babak Karimi

Terrestrial Verses (2023)

A satirical take on the mundane absurdities of life in modern-day Iran, these nine vignettes illuminate the lighter side of enduring under authoritarian rule. Whether choosing a name for a newborn, graduating from grade school, getting a driver's license, ...

The Strait (2023)

Two teenagers are trying to get rich in an unusual way. ...

Fossil (2023)

Set in 70's Pre-Revolution Iran, a Musical Artist Struggles to Make a Name for Himself. ...

Set Me Free (2023)

Hatef and Hatem are two brothers from a famous family that get involved in a complicated romantic situation, the exit of which may lead them to strange borders of love and hate ...

Vanished (2023)

A young couple who live in an old house, notice a car outside, that keeps parking in front of their property and suspiciously stares at it.. ...

I Am Forough (2022)

Forough Farrokhzad, one of Iran's greatest modern poets, provoked uproar by daring to write of female sensuality in the face of society's traditional values. Her awakening found expression in poetry, theatre, and cinema, enabling art, as she saw it, to be ...

The Wastetown (2022)

Bemani has spent ten years in jail for killing her husband. Her child was taken away in prison and allegedly given to her husband's family. Temporarily released, she immediately starts looking for her son. Bemani goes to the car demolition workshop where E ...

Bucharest (2022)

A social media influencer accidentally kills a politician and gets into trouble. ...

Visiting Time (2022)

A man who has been through a really bitter experience in his life is thinking of joining his family who has recently immigrated, but before that he must catch up on some things like renting out his home, selling the car and etc. , but his problem is someth ...

Lawless City (2022)

It tells the story of a brother and sister named "Parviz" and "Swallow" who earn their living by robbing rich families. ...

Odyssey of Solitude (2022)

Ahmad is a psychiatrist, believing in the treatment of the soul with the medicine in a positivistic and laboratorial way. But when his wife goes missing, he gets involved in his own delusions. Trying hard to find a trace of her, he goes to all of his frien ...

The Loser Man (2022)

Ahmad is a detective who is suspicious of the network behind a recently committed crime. When the investigation advances further, he finds out that he might be in danger too. ...

(Im)perfetti Criminali (2022)

Riccardo, Amir, Pietro and Massimo, four security guards, not particularly brilliant or courageous, are bound by an indissoluble friendship. When Amir, who has a large family to support, loses his job, the other three feel called to help him at any cost. G ...

Until Tomorrow (2022)

Student Fereshteh has to hide her illegitimate baby for one night from her parents who turn up for a surprise visit. Her friend Atefeh helps her. They embark on an odyssey through Tehran during which they must carefully weigh up who their allies are. ...

Zeros and Ones (2021)

Called to Rome to stop an imminent terrorist bombing, a soldier desperately seeks news of his imprisoned brother — a rebel with knowledge that could thwart the attack. Navigating the capital's darkened streets, he races to a series of ominous encounters ...

Careless Crime (2021)

During the uprising to overthrow the Shah's regime in Iran, protestors set fire to movie theatres to protest Western culture. Forty years later, four people decide to re-create the past by burning down a theatre. ...

The World in Shots (2021)

"Il mondo a scatti" is a film that intertwines images of today and yesterday, still images and moving images through a dialogue between two people who reflect on the visible and invisible things of the world: Cecilia Mangini, unstoppable ninety years old, ...

Free - Liberi (2021)

At the End of Evin (2021)

A transsexual named Amen is optimistically planning to do gender reassignment surgery but ends up being sent to prison. Being a transsexual was hard enough in Iran for Amen, let alone the misfortune of being replaced as a murderer. ...

Majority (2021)

A remote village has not had a previous boom for years. Residents have either been forced to migrate or are in poverty and misery, but the village has a new guest. But the village has a new... ...

The Life Ahead (2020)

In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her. ...

No Choice (2020)

A young homeless girl supports herself as a surrogate mother for money. A human rights attorney tries to help her change her life, but ithe challenges seem insurmountable. This is a rarely seen side of Iranian society. ...

Yalda (2020)

Maryam accidentally killed her husband Nasser and is sentenced to death. The only person who can save her is Mona, Nasser's daughter. All Mona has to do is appear on a TV show and forgive Maryam. But forgiveness proves difficult when they are forced to rel ...

Bad Habits Die Hard (2020)

Diana Liviatani is joined in her family house by her almost new boyfriend, Orlando who is going to meet her scary parents. Due to his insecure, clumsy and embarrassing personality, Orlando insists that his best friend Biagio goes along with him. The social ...

Timo's Winter (2020)

Timo, the youngest of a Greek community of Funfair workers, will have to face the hardest winter together with his loved ones. ...

Cinema Shahre Gheseh (2020)

David, a movie-maker who loves filmmaking, falls in love with a girl whose father is a staunch opponent of cinema. ...

The Role (2018)

A woman accompanies her husband for an audition. The thing that happens there leads her for an important decision... ...

Delay (2018)

A man and his two children are late for their flight. While they wait for the next flight something happens that changes his point of view about being a father. ...

Invasion To Interpretation (2018)

"Invasion To Interpretation" is the title of the performance lecturer that Nasim Ahmadpour performed in 2018 during the Fajr International Theater Festival in the off-stage section and in the conference hall. This video has been designed on the sidelines o ...

The Girl's House (2017)

Tomorrow is Samira's wedding ceremony and Bahar and Parisa are shopping excitedly. But at night somebody calls and tells them that the bride is dead and the wedding has been called off. They are both shocked and they cannot believe what they have heard, so ...

Invasion (2017)

Someone's been murdered and the police is investigating in a stadium, the crime spot. They have arrested the murder suspect and they just try to find out the murdering procedure, however, it is quite complicated and the friends of the murdered person are n ...

The Last Prosecco (2017)

The suicide of a prominent wine producer unleashes a series of mysterious murders. ...

Gaze (2017)

On her way back from work, a woman witnesses something happening in the bus. She must decide if she will reveal it or not. ...

A Wedding (2017)

Zahira, 18, is close to her family until her parents ask her to follow Pakistani tradition to choose a husband. Torn between family customs and her western lifestyle, the young woman turns for help to her brother and confidant Amir. ...

The Salesman (2016)

Forced out of their apartment due to dangerous works on a neighboring building, Emad and Rana move into a new flat in the center of Tehran. An incident linked to the previous tenant will dramatically change the young couple's life. ...

Death of the Fish (2016)

An old woman's death brings her children together so maybe family's wounds will be healed during this unwanted confrontation. ...

Fish & Cat (2013)

A group of students travel to a remote region to participate in a kite-flying event. Next to their camp by the lakeside, they find a restaurant with cooks that treat the students with suspicion. Bizarre events lead to a complicated situation, from which th ...

No Where No Body (2013)

A young couple need easy money. A few friends join them to plan a kidnap, but nothing goes right when some of them go after revenge and betray each other. ...

The Past (2013)

After four years apart, Ahmad returns to his wife Marie in Paris in order to progress their divorce. During his brief stay, he cannot help noticing the strained relationship between Marie and her daughter Lucie. As he attempts to improve matters between mo ...

A Separation (2011)

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease. ...

Ex (2009)

Ex is a 2009 film directed and co-written by Fausto Brizzi and interpreted by a rich and large cast of characters. The film, produced by Italian International Film, in co-production with the French company and Mes Films in collaboration with RAI Cinema. I ...

Quiet Chaos (2008)

Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drive ...

Last Minute Marocco (2007)

Guided by the spirit of adventure and desire to escape, a group of Italian boys decide to leave secretly for Morocco, soon followed by one of their apprensive parents. ...

10 Days with Kiarostami (2005)

10 Days with Kiarostami ...

Green Days (2009)

A playwright Iran tries to confront a creative crisis while political clashes erupt during her country's 2009 election. ...

Nose Iranian Style (2006)

A look at the reasons why every year 70,000 Iranians have a nose job. ...

Tickets (2005)

A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and a compl ...

The Island (2003)

A coming of age story of boy Turi and his younger sister Teresa on an island off the coast of Sicily. ...

Placido Rizzotto (2000)

As a child, Sicilian Placido Rizzotto saw his father imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, and as a young man he fought in World War II, first as a soldier and then as an anti-fascist partisan. These events have left Placido with little taste for petty ...

I Briganti di Zabut (1998)

A laborer sent into exile during the Fascist era for defending a beggar returns to his hometown after the armistice. He finds it in the throes of peasant revolts and soon becomes the leader of a gang wanted by both the Carabinieri and the Mafia. ...

Marquise (1997)

Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophie Marceau, the eponymous heroine is an engagingly ribald, but perhaps rather too modern, character. She rises from an impoverished background to become a fa ...