Keywan Karimi (Persian: کیوان کریمی ; born 21 September 1985) is an Iranian independent filmmaker of Kurdish descent.

Karimi began his work with a series of short documentary films that critiqued life in contemporary Iran.

Karimi later moved to Paris for three years where he worked on his new film project OMID during a residency program in Cité internationale des arts invited by Institut Français.

[3] Karimi's film-making style is part inspired by the Situationist International movement, as well as Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem.

They also confiscated his hard drives and other material and was taken to Evin Prison where he was interrogated and kept in solitary confinement for two weeks.