Home

Ziba Karamali (b. 1996)

Alias:
زیبا کرمعلی

Birthplace:
Karaj, Iran

Born:
December 2, 1996

Biography from TheMovieDB

She graduated from Tehran University of Art in 2020, and she is one of the very few Iranian students that has been attracted by professionals in the film industry of Iran while studying. She ranked 8 among 150,000 participants in the Iranian Konkur (national university entrance exam) in 2015, and since that time she is a member of Iran's National Elite Foundation.  Among Iranian public audiences, she is mostly known because of her act as the leading actress in Lottery 2018- a film that not only got the attention of the film reviewers and juries but also holds the record of the most sale in the Fajr Film Festival (the most prestigious film festival in Iran) for all the time.  Even though she has started her acting career successfully, she doesn't want to leave her main point of interest, telling remarkable stories about her society as a filmmaker.  She's directed Barter in 2020 with Emad Arad. They met each other in a short project finding that they have a lot of common social concerns, as well as common sense about their artistic visions which lead them to cooperate in the Barter as their first film. A film that is the result of their intense social concerns representing complicated aspects of family relationships.

Click the heading above to show or hide the text.

Additional information:

The Search Form


Film Performances

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

Film Production

Director:
2021  Barter

Writer:
2021  Barter

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.