Niki Karimi named jury at Crime and Punishment filmfest

Iranian director, producer, and actress Niki Karimi has been selected to preside over the jury of the 2021 International Crime and Punishment Film Festival (ICAPFF) in Turkey.   

Karimi will be judging at the Golden Scale Feature Film Competition section of the Turkish film event.

Along with Karimi, Ukrainian cinema expert Bohdan Zhuk, director Pelin Esmer and actor Mehmet Aslantuğ from Turkey and Bulgarian filmmaker Mira Staleva will serve in the jury panel.

‘Scent of Joseph’ star has already served, as a juror, at several renowned film festivals, including the Berlin Film Festival and the 60th Cannes Film Festival.

Born in 1971, Karimi made her debut performance in ‘The Bride’ directed by well-known Iranian director Behrouz Afkhami in 1990.

According to Karimi, acting did not satisfy her, so she began making films and won her first award as a director for her documentary called 'To Have or not to Have' (2001) at Iran's Rain Film Festival.

In 2004, she made her first feature film 'One Night' (2004) which was shown in numerous international film festivals such as the Cannes Film Festival (2006) in the Un Certain Regards Section.

Her second feature film 'A Few Days Later' (2006) premiered at Rome Film Festival and the third one, 'Final Whistle' (2010), won three awards at the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema in France.

Karimi is also an acting coach and a translator. Her first published work was 'Songs My Mother Taught Me', the biography of Marlon Brando.

The International Crime and Punishment Film Festival (ICAPFF) aims “to use the striking language of art and science to create social discussion on human rights and freedoms.”

The upcoming edition of the festival will be held on November 26-December 2, 2021 in Istanbul with the slogan “Justice for All”.

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