Karim Aïnouz
Karim Aïnouz (born 17 January 1966) is a Brazilian filmmaker and visual artist. Description above from the Wikipedia article Karim Aïnouz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Works
Kulturzeit
Release Date1995-10-02
Charactersd self
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
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 Date2008-06-09
Charactersd Himself
Vote Count3
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 Date2008-01-22
Charactersd Self
Vote Count19
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 Date2015-09-15
Charactersd Self
Vote Count6
Saudade
Release Date2017-10-11
Charactersd Self
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 Date2022-10-06
Charactersd Self (archive footage)
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 Date2011-05-01
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
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 Date2010-05-24
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count7
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 Date2021-09-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date2005-11-04
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count92
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.
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
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 Date2007-08-23
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count10
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 Date2019-08-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count334
O Preso
Release Date1992-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Madame Satã
In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro of the 1930s, João Francisco dos Santos is several things — son of slaves, ex-convict, thug, homosexual and adopted father for a number of pariahs. João expresses himself on the stage of a cabaret as Madame Satã.
Release Date2002-10-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count79
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 Date1992-09-11
DepartmentEditing
JobAssistant Editor
Vote Count30
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 Date2024-03-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count136
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 Date1991-04-05
DepartmentEditing
JobAssistant Editor
Vote Count89
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 Date2000-08-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
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 Date2011-05-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count15
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 Date2011-02-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
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 Date2005-05-17
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count109
Short Plays
Football seen through the eyes of some of the best directors of the world.
Release Date2014-06-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
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 Date2014-05-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date1995-09-29
DepartmentEditing
JobAssistant Editor
Vote Count311
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 Date2006-11-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count65
Seams
An experimental narrative about machismo in the Northeast of Brazil.
Release Date1993-03-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
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 Date2008-09-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count9
Vote Count2
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 Date2004-02-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date2014-05-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count86
Mariner of the Mountains
Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz decides to take a boat, cross the Mediterranean, and embark on his first journey to Algeria. Accompanied by the memory of his mother, Iracema, and his camera, Aïnouz gives a detailed account of the journey to his father’s homeland, interweaving present, past, and future.
Release Date2023-09-28
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count6
Mission Persephone
The Earth post-pandemic.
Release Date2020-05-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Trevo de Quatro Navalhas
An western about a gang of transsexuals who steal to carry out trans operations.
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
If It Where Always Like This
Video installation, in 16mm film.
Release Date2004-05-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
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 Date2013-08-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count16
Destricted.br experimental
Release Date2011-05-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date1996-05-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Motel Destino
Motel Destino, a sex hotel in Northern Brazil, is run by the hot-headed Elias and his restless wife, Dayana. When a young gang member on the run named Heraldo stays at the motel, Dayana becomes intrigued with him. As the two navigate a dance of power and desire, a dangerous plan for freedom emerges.
Release Date2024-08-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count57
Keep the Lights On
Documentary filmmaker Erik and closeted lawyer Paul meet through a casual encounter, but they find a deeper connection and become a couple. Individually and together, they are risk takers — compulsive, and fueled by drugs and sex. In an almost decade-long relationship defined by highs, lows, and dysfunctional patterns, Erik struggles to negotiate his own boundaries and dignity and to be true to himself.
Release Date2012-07-27
DepartmentCrew
JobThanks
Vote Count102
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.
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date2001-12-12
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count125
Les Ballons des Bairros
Release Date1998-05-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
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 Date2014-05-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
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 Date2010-05-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count41
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 Date2018-02-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
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 Date2019-12-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
La Divina
Brooke Dammkoehler’s meditation on the rise to stardom of a glamorous movie idol (modelled after Greta Garbo), draped in gorgeous black & white photography and a tone of delirious grandeur.
Release Date1989-11-17
DepartmentSound
JobSound Editor
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 Date2019-12-05
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Consultant
Vote Count5
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 Date2010-11-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
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 Date2015-03-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
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 Date2010-10-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
O Sol na Cabeça
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
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 Date1996-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
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.
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Joqueta
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer