---
name: "Babak Najafi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/babak-najafi"
fi1m_id: "babak-najafi"
imdb_id: "nm0619836"
tmdb_id: 132239
wikidata_id: "Q668170"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "14 September 1975"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T13:44:06.755715+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Babak Najafi

## Identity

Babak Najafi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/babak-najafi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** babak-najafi
- **IMDb ID:** nm0619836
- **TMDB ID:** 132239
- **Wikidata ID:** Q668170
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babak_Najafi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q668170, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0619836/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/132239

Director. Born 14 September 1975 in Teheran, Iran.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 14 September 1975, Teheran, Iran
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babak_Najafi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q668170, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0619836/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/132239

## Coming up

- *The Florist* (2026-09-24), Director

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Banshee*](https://film.one/tv/banshee.md) (72)

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## Biography

Babak Najafi Karami is an Iranian-Swedish film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. Born in Tehran in 1975, he moved to Sweden as a refugee at the age of 11. He studied documentary directing at the Dramatiska Institutet between 1998 and 2002.

After graduation, Najafi directed several short films. His feature debut *Sebbe* (2010) won a Guldbagge Award for Best Film and the Best First Feature award at the Berlin International Film Festival. He went on to direct *Easy Money II: Hard to Kill* (2012) and episodes of the series *Banshee* (2014).

Najafi made his English-language debut with *London Has Fallen* (2016). He later directed *Proud Mary* (2018).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Banshee* (2013), Fi1m 72, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/banshee.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Florist* (2026), Director
- *Boys Feels: Desire in the Dark* (2021), Writer
- *Proud Mary* (2018), Director
- *London Has Fallen* (2016), Director
- *Boys* (2015), Screenplay
- *Gabriel and the Laser Man* (2013), Writer, Director
- *Banshee* (2013), series, Director — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/banshee.md)
- *Banshee: Origins* (2013), series, Director
- *Easy Money: Hard to Kill* (2012), Director, Writer
- *Sebbe* (2010), Director, Writer
- *I Don't Understand* (2008), Director

## Gallery

- ![Babak Najafi](https://film.one/media/person/1339950/gallery-3f14ca93f14d.jpg) Babak Najafi — Siebbi, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Babak_Najafi_%28Berlin_Film_Festival_2010%29.jpg/1280px-Babak_Najafi_%28Berlin_Film_Festival_2010%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Directors of Easy Money 1, 2 and 3, Daniel Espinosa, Babak Najafi and Jens Jonsson, at Cannes Film Festival 2012.](https://film.one/media/person/1339950/gallery-870b70a47963.jpg) Directors of Easy Money 1, 2 and 3, Daniel Espinosa, Babak Najafi and Jens Jonsson, at Cannes Film Festival 2012. — Film i Väst, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Daniel_Espinosa_Babak_Najafi_Jens_Jonsson_Cannes_2012.JPG/1280px-Daniel_Espinosa_Babak_Najafi_Jens_Jonsson_Cannes_2012.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dragomir Mrsic & Babak Najafi på Guldbaggegalan den 21 januari 2013.](https://film.one/media/person/1339950/gallery-13da2a7ee71d.jpg) Dragomir Mrsic & Babak Najafi på Guldbaggegalan den 21 januari 2013. — Frankie Fouganthin, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Dragomir_Mrsic_%26_Babak_Najafi.jpg/1280px-Dragomir_Mrsic_%26_Babak_Najafi.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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