BABAK KARIMI

THE SALESMAN (2017)
Starring Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Karimi, Mina Sadati, Mehdi Kushki, Farid Sajjadi Hosseini, Maral Bani Adam, Mojtaba Pirzadeh, Sam Valipour and Shirin Aghakashi. Directed by Asghar Farhadi.

Emad and Rama are a husband and wife who also happen to be actors. Taking on the roles of Willy and Linda Loman in a local production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, the themes of the play stealthily begin to make themselves felt in their lives off stage. They are forced to evacuate their collapsing Tehran apartment building, and within the first few days in their new home Rama is attacked by an intruder. As Rama attempts to navigate her new-found fear, an impasse grows between them as Emad longs to violently revenge himself against Rama’s attacker.

THE PAST (2014)
Starring Bérénice Bejo, Ali Mosaffa, Tahar Rahim, Pauline Burlet, Elyes Aguis, Jeanne Jestin, Sabrina Ouazani, Babak Karimi, Valéria Cavalli and Aleksandra Klebanska. Directed by Asghar Farhadi.

Following a four year separation, Ahmad returns to Paris from Tehran, upon his French wife Marie’s request, in order to finalise their divorce procedure. During his brief stay, Ahmad discovers the conflicting nature of Marie’s relationship with her daughter Lucie. Ahmad’s efforts to improve this relationship soon unveil a secret from their past.