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Karim Aïnouz is a Director, Scriptwriter, Casting, Assistant Editor and Electrician Brésilien born on 17 january 1966

Karim Aïnouz

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Nationality Bresil
Birth 17 january 1966 (58 years)

Karim Aïnouz, né le 17 janvier 1966 à Fortaleza (Brésil), est un réalisateur et artiste visuel brésilien.

Biography

Il descend d'une famille d'origine algérienne. Après des études d'architecture à Brasilia, Karim Aïnouz suit une formation en théorie du cinéma à l'université de New York (NYU). De l'architecture à la peinture en passant par la photographie, Karim Aïnouz se spécialise dans le cinéma expérimental.

Il évolue au début des années 1990 dans le milieu du cinéma américain. Il commence en travaillant pour le réalisateur Todd Haynes sur son film Poison (1991), d'abord comme assistant de casting puis comme assistant monteur. Il travaillera aussi sur deux films : Swoon (1992) de Tom Kalin et Postcards from America (1993) de Steve McLean.

C'est aussi à cette période que Karim Aïnouz commence le tournage de ses deux premiers courts-métrages comme réalisateur : O Preso (1992) et Seams (tourné en 1990 et complété en 1993). Seams est un mélange entre le journal intime et le documentaire, utilisant le Super 8 et le VHS. Le documentaire recevra notamment le prix de meilleur court-métrage au Atlanta Film Festival (1994) et à celui du Ann Arbor Film Festival dans le Michigan (1994).

Il tournera ensuite Paixão Nacional (1994) et Hic Habitat Felicitas (1996).

Son premier long-métrage Madame Satã (2002) est sélectionné au Certain regard au Festival de Cannes et reçoit de multiples récompenses à travers le monde.

Le Ciel de Suely (2006) ainsi que Viajo porque Preciso, Volto porque Te Amo, co-réalisé avec Marcelo Gomes (2009), sont invités à la section Orizzonti à la Biennale de Venise et remportent des prix internationaux.

En 2008 Karim Aïnouz réalise Alice, une série de treize épisodes pour HBO Amérique latine.

La Falaise argentée (2011) est présenté à la Quinzaine des réalisateurs à Cannes et gagne le prix de meilleur réalisateur au Festival international du film de Rio de Janeiro.

Il réalise aussi le film Sonnenalle (2011) pour La Biennale de Sarjah.

Il est scénariste d’Avril brisé (2002) de Walter Salles mais aussi de Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus (2005) de Marcelo Gomes et est co-scénariste de Lower City (Cidade Baixa, 2005) de Sérgio Machado.

Ses installations sont exposées dans différentes manifestations comme la biennale du Whitney Museum of American Art (1997), la Biennale d’Art de São Paulo (2004) et la Biennale de Sharjah (2011). Il a aussi collaboré avec Olafur Eliasson pour son installation vidéo Your Empathic City pour Videobrasil Festival. Il en fera un documentaire, Domingo, qui sera projeté au Festival du film international de Rio en 2014.

Karim Aïnouz est invité en 2012 à diriger un des courts-métrages du projet Destricted.bren 2012 avec Adriana Varejão, Janaína Tschäpe, Julião Sarmento, Lula Buarque de Hollanda, Marcos Chaves e Miguel Rio Branco. Ce projet est sur le modèle du projet Destricted de Larry Clark.

En 2012 il fut invité pour être jury au Festival de Cannes pour la Cinéfondation et pour Cannes Courts-métrages. En 2014 il est président du Jury pour le Festival international du film de Rio et pour le Heiner Carow Award durant la 63e Berlinale.

Son dernier long métrage, Praia do Futuro (2014), a été tourné en Allemagne et au Brésil. Le film a été sélectionné en compétition officielle pour l'Ours d'Or à la Berlinale de 2014.

Il a participé à la réalisation du documentaire Cathedrals of Culture en partenariat Wim Wenders. Le projet du film en 3D est de traiter de l'âme des bâtiments. Karim Aïnouz a choisi de filmer le Centre Pompidou. Le documentaire fut projeté à la Berlinale en 2014.

Son long métrage La Vie invisible d'Eurídice Gusmão (A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão) remporte le prix Un certain regard au Festival de Cannes 2019. Le film est censuré par les autorités brésiliennes.

Usually with

Todd Haynes
Todd Haynes
(3 films)
Marcelo Gomes
Marcelo Gomes
(3 films)
João Miguel
João Miguel
(3 films)
Walter Salles
Walter Salles
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Karim Aïnouz (12 films)

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Director

Invisible Life, 2h19
Directed by Karim Aïnouz
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Politique, Political films
Actors Fernanda Montenegro
Rating77% 3.8513153.8513153.8513153.8513153.851315
Rio de Janeiro, 1950. Euridice, 18 ans, et Guida, 20 ans, sont deux soeurs inséparables. Elles vivent chez leurs parents et rêvent, l’une d’une carrière de pianiste, l’autre du grand amour. A cause de leur père, les deux soeurs vont devoir construire leurs vies l’une sans l’autre. Séparées, elles prendront en main leur destin, sans jamais renoncer à se retrouver.
Futuro Beach, 1h46
Directed by Karim Aïnouz
Origin German
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Wagner Moura, Clemens Schick, Sabine Timoteo, Emily Cox, Sophie Charlotte Conrad
Rating63% 3.1524853.1524853.1524853.1524853.152485
In the film, shot in Fortaleza and Berlin, Wagner Moura plays the lifeguard Donato, who works at Praia do Futuro. When a German tourist loses his life in a drowning, Donato feels the loss of the tourist was his fault and begins a journey to escape from his present self. Whenever he drifts away, his younger brother, Ayrton (Jesuita Barbosa), brings him back.
The Silver Cliff, 1h23
Directed by Karim Aïnouz
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama
Actors Alessandra Negrini, Milton Gonçalves
Rating63% 3.186293.186293.186293.186293.18629
Violeta (Alessandra Negrini) is a dentist married and with one son, having a normal working day. While listening to a message left on the phone she panics. The message was written by her husband, Djalma (Otto Jr.), who said he was leaving her and going to Porto Alegre. He asks Violeta to not go after him, but she does not follow the advice and tries to travel as soon as possible, to the capital of Rio Grande do Sul.
I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You, 1h11
Directed by Marcelo Gomes, Karim Aïnouz
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Irandhir Santos
Rating71% 3.5918253.5918253.5918253.5918253.591825
José Renato (Irandhir Santos), a geologist, is sent on a 30-day assignment into an isolated region in the Northeast of Brazil. The film is a road movie with a succession of images of the passing landscape and seemingly endless highway, narrated by the protagonist.
Love for Sale, 1h30
Directed by Karim Aïnouz
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama
Actors João Miguel, Marcélia Cartaxo
Rating70% 3.5491253.5491253.5491253.5491253.549125
Hermila was born and raised in the small town in northeastern Brazil. To earn money she adopts the pseudonym Suely, and offers herself in a raffle. The winner will have what she calls "A Night in Paradise."
Madame Satã, 1h45
Directed by Karim Aïnouz
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Historical, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Lázaro Ramos, Marcélia Cartaxo, Renata Sorrah, Eduardo Coutinho, Floriano Peixoto, Gero Camilo
Rating69% 3.4964053.4964053.4964053.4964053.496405
Au début du XX siècle, dans les quartiers chauds de Rio de Janeiro, un homme, João Francisco, se fait remarquer par ses mœurs libres, sa liberté, ses bagarres et ses excentricités.

Scriptwriter

Invisible Life, 2h19
Directed by Karim Aïnouz
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Politique, Political films
Actors Fernanda Montenegro
Rating77% 3.8513153.8513153.8513153.8513153.851315
Rio de Janeiro, 1950. Euridice, 18 ans, et Guida, 20 ans, sont deux soeurs inséparables. Elles vivent chez leurs parents et rêvent, l’une d’une carrière de pianiste, l’autre du grand amour. A cause de leur père, les deux soeurs vont devoir construire leurs vies l’une sans l’autre. Séparées, elles prendront en main leur destin, sans jamais renoncer à se retrouver.
Futuro Beach, 1h46
Directed by Karim Aïnouz
Origin German
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Wagner Moura, Clemens Schick, Sabine Timoteo, Emily Cox, Sophie Charlotte Conrad
Roles Writer
Rating63% 3.1524853.1524853.1524853.1524853.152485
In the film, shot in Fortaleza and Berlin, Wagner Moura plays the lifeguard Donato, who works at Praia do Futuro. When a German tourist loses his life in a drowning, Donato feels the loss of the tourist was his fault and begins a journey to escape from his present self. Whenever he drifts away, his younger brother, Ayrton (Jesuita Barbosa), brings him back.
The Silver Cliff, 1h23
Directed by Karim Aïnouz
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama
Actors Alessandra Negrini, Milton Gonçalves
Roles Writer
Rating63% 3.186293.186293.186293.186293.18629
Violeta (Alessandra Negrini) is a dentist married and with one son, having a normal working day. While listening to a message left on the phone she panics. The message was written by her husband, Djalma (Otto Jr.), who said he was leaving her and going to Porto Alegre. He asks Violeta to not go after him, but she does not follow the advice and tries to travel as soon as possible, to the capital of Rio Grande do Sul.
I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You, 1h11
Directed by Marcelo Gomes, Karim Aïnouz
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Irandhir Santos
Roles Writer
Rating71% 3.5918253.5918253.5918253.5918253.591825
José Renato (Irandhir Santos), a geologist, is sent on a 30-day assignment into an isolated region in the Northeast of Brazil. The film is a road movie with a succession of images of the passing landscape and seemingly endless highway, narrated by the protagonist.
Love for Sale, 1h30
Directed by Karim Aïnouz
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama
Actors João Miguel, Marcélia Cartaxo
Roles Writer
Rating70% 3.5491253.5491253.5491253.5491253.549125
Hermila was born and raised in the small town in northeastern Brazil. To earn money she adopts the pseudonym Suely, and offers herself in a raffle. The winner will have what she calls "A Night in Paradise."
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures, 1h39
Directed by Marcelo Gomes
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Actors João Miguel, Irandhir Santos
Roles Writer
Rating72% 3.642343.642343.642343.642343.64234
1942, au milieu du nord-est du Brésil, deux hommes très différents se rencontrent le long de la route : Johan, un vendeur d'aspirine évitant la conscription allemande, et Ranulpho, un Brésilien rural cherchant à échapper à la sécheresse.
Lower City
Lower City (2005)
, 1h37
Directed by Sérgio Machado, Sérgio Machado
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Wagner Moura, Lázaro Ramos, Alice Braga, João Miguel, Fernanda de Freitas
Rating64% 3.2491153.2491153.2491153.2491153.249115
Lifelong friends Deco and Naldinho share ownership of an old, rusting boat in Salvador, Brazil. A strong bond exists between the two men, transcending their racial differences. "No woman will come between us," Naldinho tells Deco, and Deco concurs: "All the women in the world couldn't come between us."
Behind the Sun, 1h45
Directed by Walter Salles
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Rodrigo Santoro, Wagner Moura, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Othon Bastos, Gero Camilo, Caio Junqueira
Rating75% 3.796053.796053.796053.796053.79605
The year is 1910; the place, the badlands of Northeast Brazil. Twenty-year-old Tonho is the middle son of an impoverished farm family, the Breves. He is next in line to kill and then die in an ongoing blood feud with a neighboring clan, the Ferreiras. For generations, the two families have quarreled over land. Now they are locked into a series of tit-for-tat assassinations of their sons; an eye-for-an-eye, a tooth-for-a-tooth. Embedded in this choreography of death is a particular code of ethics: "Blood has the same volume for everyone. You have no right to take more blood than was taken from you." Life is suffused with a sense of futility and stoic despair.
Madame Satã, 1h45
Directed by Karim Aïnouz
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Historical, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Lázaro Ramos, Marcélia Cartaxo, Renata Sorrah, Eduardo Coutinho, Floriano Peixoto, Gero Camilo
Roles Writer
Rating69% 3.4964053.4964053.4964053.4964053.496405
Au début du XX siècle, dans les quartiers chauds de Rio de Janeiro, un homme, João Francisco, se fait remarquer par ses mœurs libres, sa liberté, ses bagarres et ses excentricités.