Ali Karim (Persian: علی کریم, born 10 October 1977) is an Iranian film director, producer, actor, scriptwriter and screenwriter. He was born in Tehran, Iran on 10 October 1977. He was a theatre actor before appearing in films, such as ''

Killing Mad Dogs ''Killing Mad Dogs'' (, 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 the city with the po ...

'' (2001) by

Bahram Bayzai Bahrām Beyzāêi (also spelt Beizāi, Beyzāêi, Beyzāee, ; born 26 December 1938) is an Iranian playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and '' ostād'' ("master") of Persian letters, arts and Iranian studies. Beyzaie is the ...

. He then served as assistant director on various films, working especially with

Dariush Mehrjui Dariush Mehrjui (‎; 8 December 1939 – 14 October 2023) was an Iranian filmmaker and a member of the Iranian Academy of the Arts. Mehrjui was a founding member of the Iranian New Wave movement of the early 1970s, which also included direc ...

on ''

Mum's Guest ''Mum's Guest'' (, Transliteration, translit. ''Mehman-e Maman'', Romanized as ''Mehmān-e Māmān'') is a 2004 Iranian family comedy film directed by Dariush Mehrjui. It is based on a book of the same name by Iranian author Houshang Moradi K ...

'' (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 ''

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'' 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, ''

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'' in 2009. The film closed the Critics’ Week at the

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the very same year.

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