Karim Aïnouz

Motel Destino

Dayana lives an abusive marriage with former police officer Elias, owner of Motel Destino. When 21-year-old Heraldo finds himself at the motel after messing up a hit and going on the run, Dayana finds herself intrigued and lets him stay. As the two navigate a dance of power and desire, a dangerous plan for freedom emerges.

Release Date:2024-08-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:38

Firebrand

Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad. When the king returns, increasingly ill and paranoid, Katherine finds herself fighting for her own survival.

Release Date:2024-03-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:93

Mariner of the Mountains

Using his personal background, Brazilian Karim Aïnous invites the audience to follow/discover an incredible journey through space and time, with an original and usually unknown prism/aspect : The strong bound between Algeria and Brazil, two countries with political and revolutionary strikes that mould their evolution.

Release Date:2023-09-28

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:5

Quando a Coisa Vira Outra

Vladimir Carvalho's Cinema of Inequality marked the documentary filmmaker's trajectory over decades of activity. Considered one of the most important Brazilian documentary filmmakers in activity, his images influenced the emergence of Cinema Novo and the new Brazilian documentary years later. Quando a Coisa Vira Outra covers the most important films made by Vladimir, revealing where ideas come from to show the true reality of a country.

Release Date:2022-10-06

Character:Self (archive footage)

Nardjes A.

Accompanying activist Nardjes with his camera, Karim Aïnouz documents the youth culture, which is confidently taking to the streets for a democratic future in Algeria, whose independence their parents and grandparents have already fought.

Release Date:2021-09-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Mission Persephone

The Earth post-pandemic.

Release Date:2020-05-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on iPhones.

Release Date:2019-12-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

We Still Have the Deep Black Night

Karen sings and plays the trumpet in a vigorous rock band in Brasilia, but no one there is interested in it. At 27, she has lost hope in the city her grandfather helped to build. She follows in the footsteps of her ex-partner in the band, Artur, and tries her luck in Berlin.

Release Date:2019-12-05

Department:Writing

Job:Script Consultant

Vote Count:5

Invisible Life

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support each other. While Guida can share with her younger sister the details of her romantic adventures, Eurídice finds in her older sister the encouragement she needs to pursue her dream of becoming a professional pianist.

Release Date:2019-08-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:310

Central Airport THF

A documentary about Berlin's former airport Tempelhof. A film about Departures and Arrivals. And about those Berliners who come here to escape from their daily lives and those refugees who came here to finally arrive somewhere.

Release Date:2018-02-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:8

Saudade

Release Date:2017-10-11

Character:Self

About Cinema

An abandoned tumbledown theater in the outback of Paraíba state is the initial setting of a film about cinema, which explores the testimonials of the novelist and playwright Ariano Suassuna and other filmmakers such as Ruy Guerra, Julio Bressane, Ken Loach, Andrzej Wajda, Karim Ainouz, José Padilha, Hector Babenco, Vilmos Zsigmond, Béla Tarr, Gus Van Sant and Jia Zhangke. They all respond to two basic questions: why do they make movies and why do they serve the seventh art. The filmmakers share their thoughts about time, narrative, rhythm, light, movement, the meaning of tragedy, the audience‘s desires and the boundaries with other forms of art.

Release Date:2015-09-15

Character:Self

Vote Count:4

Velázquez – Wild Realism

He was ceaselessly in search of the human truth through the treatment of the light and the space and in the way he roams around things. His work full of boldness marks an essential stage in the history of paint.

Release Date:2015-03-19

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:3

Short Plays

Football seen through the eyes of some of the best directors of the world.

Release Date:2014-06-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

Cathedrals of Culture

"If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?" CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE offers six startling responses. This 3D film project about the soul of buildings allows six iconic and very different buildings to speak for themselves, examining human life from the unblinking perspective of a manmade structure. Six acclaimed filmmakers bring their own visual style and artistic approach to the project. Buildings, they show us, are material manifestations of human thought and action: the Berlin Philharmonic, an icon of modernity; the National Library of Russia, a kingdom of thoughts; Halden Prison, the world's most humane prison; the Salk Institute, an institute for breakthrough science; the Oslo Opera House, a futuristic symbiosis of art and life; and the Centre Pompidou, a modern culture machine. CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE explores how each of these landmarks reflects our culture and guards our collective memory.

Release Date:2014-05-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

Futuro Beach

Donato fails in his attempt to save a drowning man, and meets one of the man's friends. He decides to start his life over, but pieces of his past keep coming after him.

Release Date:2014-05-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:82

Sunday

A short film built around footage shot during ten Sundays, from February 12 to December 30 of 2012, in the city of São Paulo, creating a reference for time and space that helps build a narrative marked by temporality. A film in which the main characters are the city of São Paulo and the work of Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. A new look on the city, its spaces, occupations and habitants.

Release Date:2014-05-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.

Release Date:2013-08-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:15

The Man Who Defused Bombs

A short film made for Venezia 70 – Future Reloaded (2013).

Release Date:2013-08-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Silver Cliff

Violeta is a married dentist on a normal working day. While listening to a message left on the cell she enters in despair. The message of her husband, Djalma, says he is leaving her and going to another city.

Release Date:2011-05-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:14

Sunny Lane

Berlin‘s past and future through the eye of an outsider - nothing but the naked truth by someone being torn apart by life and longing.

Release Date:2011-05-01

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Destricted.br experimental

Release Date:2011-05-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Neverquiet (Film of Wonders)

An experimental collective film lasting little more than an hour, compiled from 10 episodes by a total of 14 different young Brazilian filmmakers. The project was an initiative of the directing duo Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande, who sent a ‘letter of concern’ to inspire the participants. In it, a 16-year-old girl wrote about her dreams, which have been translated by the directors into films about love, youth and the possibilities of cinema.

Release Date:2011-02-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Alice Especial, Part 1: The First Day of the Rest of My Life

Two years after her arrival in São Paulo, Alice continues her relationship with Nicholas and has begun to look for a place where they can live together. She has also launched a business that produces children's shows, and a stable life seems to be taking shape. But as she goes about the apartment search and shares in the loves and uncertainties of old and new friends, what she observes leaves her far less certain of her decisions and her future.

Release Date:2010-11-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

Bra

National version of a series of short films made by American and European artists about the relationship between art and pornography, Destricted.br brings, in addition to videos, photographs, sculptures and paintings. Miguel Rio Branco, Adriana Varejão, Tunga and Julião Sarmento are some of the participants.

Release Date:2010-10-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Joy

Joy is a fable about courage and youth. It tells the story of Luiza, 16 year old girl, who can not stand to hear about the end of the world… On a Christmas night, his cousin John is mysteriously shot in a street in the Lowlands and disappears into the night. Weeks later, while Luiza spends days alone in the apartment where he lives with his mother in Rio de Janeiro, a mysterious visitor comes knocking on your door: John, as a ghost, asking to hide there.

Release Date:2010-05-24

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:6

I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You

José Renato, a 35-year-old geologist, is sent out on a solitary expedition to the hinterlands of northeastern Brazil. The purpose of the trip is to assess possible routes for a canal that will connect the area with the only major river in the region. As the field trip progresses, it becomes clear that Renato shares with those places the same emptiness, sense of abandonment and isolation.

Release Date:2010-05-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:39

Alice

Alice is a 26-year old woman, who moves to São Paulo after her father's unexpected death. In this intense and eclectic city, she starts to live life to the fullest, discover pleasures, chalk up successes and fearlessly face her failures.

Release Date:2008-09-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:9

Vote Count:2

Cinema in 7 Colors

Cinema in 7 Colors traces an historical panorama of how the queer people were portrayed in the Brazilian silver screens, from its origin in the chanchadas of the 1950s up to the present day. The film investigates the origins of the prejudices, stereotypes, as well as the importance of the identification with constructive representations of these characters.

Release Date:2008-06-09

Character:Himself

Vote Count:2

Critic

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.

Release Date:2008-01-22

Character:Self

Vote Count:19

OK

Two twenty-something boys in a public restroom. They sniff coke, talk about sex, get dirty. But the film takes on another tone as they reveal what it is that they really want.

Release Date:2007-08-23

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:9

Love for Sale

In northern Brazil, Hermila patiently waits for her husband. However, he has abandoned her. Sexy, restless and resolute, she raffles off "a night in paradise" with herself. This beautifully-shot portrait doesn't shy away from the burdens of a young scarred woman, but it also celebrates her courage to live according to her own rules.

Release Date:2006-11-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:59

Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures

1942, in the middle of Northeastern Brazil, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought.

Release Date:2005-05-17

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:100

Lower City

Best friends Deco and Naldinho co-own a cargo boat in Brazil's Salvador da Bahia. They give a ride to a sultry prostitute named Karinna, and soon both men fall prey to her considerable sexual charms, pushing the bounds of their friendship to the limit.

Release Date:2005-05-16

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:84

If It Where Always Like This

Video installation, in 16mm film.

Release Date:2004-05-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Pool Acrylic Blue Hinterland

A trip, sort of a daydream in the Brazilian badlands. Remote places reveal traditions and customs of a landscape that is at once primitive and contemporary, regional and globalised.

Release Date:2004-02-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Madame Satã

A story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture, João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). In turn, bandit, transvestite, street fighter, brothel cook, convict and father to seven adopted children, dos Santos – better known as Madame Satã – was also a notorious gay performer who pushed social boundaries in a volatile time.

Release Date:2002-10-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:77

Behind the Sun

Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be divided in two: the twenty years he has already lived and the few days he has left to live, before the other family avenges their son's death. He is torn between fulfilling his ancestral duty and rebelling against it, urged by his younger brother Pacu. That's when a tiny travelling circus passes through the vast badlands where Tonho's family lives.

Release Date:2001-12-12

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:116

Rifa-me

A young woman who dreams of leaving her small town in order to live in São Paulo decides to raffle herself in order to get a bus ticket to move there. The raffle winner gets the chance to spend the night with her. But in this small place where everybody knows each other, who'll be the winner?

Release Date:2000-08-03

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Hic Habitat Felicitas

Here lives happiness-here lives happiness, say old recordings found in the phalluses in the areas of prostitution in Pompeii. A tale of sexuality in colonialism. Mathias, a European traveler, passes through a coastal town below the equator and implodes the routine of those he encounters. In his own words: “their skin tone attracts me like an abyss.”

Release Date:1996-05-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Dead Presidents

On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist -- a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!

Release Date:1995-09-29

Department:Editing

Job:Assistant Editor

Vote Count:298

Seams

An experimental narrative about machismo in the Northeast of Brazil.

Release Date:1993-03-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

Neon River

It narrates in a near-future Tokyo the wild love affair between Dirka, a Japanese-Brazilian girl who works as a nightclub hostess to pay for her ailing Japanese father's debts, and Vadim, a young Russian drug delivery driver. Dirka yearns to return to the vaguely remembered Brazil of her youth. Vadim is sunk by remorse at having got his brother killed back in Russia.

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Les Ballons des Bairros

Release Date:1998-05-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Irreversible Metabolic Shock

A twenty-year-old Brazilian man flees his country by hiding in the luggage hold of a plane where he freezes to death. His last memory is interwoven with the diary notes of a traveller through Northern Brazil.

Release Date:1996-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

Kulturzeit

Release Date:1995-10-02

Character:self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

Swoon

Teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb share a dangerous sexual bond and an amoral outlook on life. They spend afternoons breaking into storefronts and engaging in petty crimes, until the calculating Nathan ups the ante by kidnapping, and murdering, a young boy.

Release Date:1992-09-11

Department:Editing

Job:Assistant Editor

Vote Count:28

O Preso

Release Date:1992-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Poison

A trio of interweaved transgressive tales, telling a bizarre stories of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice, a mad sex experiment which unleashes a disfiguring plague, and the obsessive sexual relationship between two prison inmates.

Release Date:1991-04-05

Department:Editing

Job:Assistant Editor

Vote Count:82

O Sol na Cabeça

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Rosebush Pruning

In the claustrophobic confines of a rural estate, a family struggles with their tangled web of hereditary diseases. Among them is Alessandro, a young man with epilepsy and paranoid tendencies. Feeling burdened by the numerous afflictions that plague his family, he decides to murder them all.

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Trevo de Quatro Navalhas

An western about a gang of transsexuals who steal to carry out trans operations.

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Lana Jaguaribe

A female version of the brazilian northeastern tradition of hitmen, focusing on a pistolwoman that seeks revenge for a trauma suffered by her sister and her.

Department:Directing

Job:Director