Karim Ainouz

Legendary criminal. Proud homosexual. Cabaret star. Passionate lover. Killer. Devoted father of seven adopted children. Saint or devil? Madame Satã. (Wellspring Media)

In order to get funds to go to São Paulo, young woman living in the Northeast of Brazil decides to raffle her own body. (imdb)

A geologist is sent to an isolated region in the Northeast of Brazil to survey water sources, but begins to feel a a sense of abandonment and loneliness. (imdb)

Violeta, 40 years old, dentist, married, a teenage son, is ready start another ordinary day, between her office and her new apartment in Copacabana. A phone message will take her to a journey in the streets of Rio till sunrise. (mubi.com)

In Portugese, ''veado" means "deer," but also "faggot" or "queer," as Karim Ainouz points out in his beautiful, suggestive film Seams. It's a lyrical visit with his five Brazilian great aunts, each of whom relates stories about romance, marriage, suffering, and survival in a man's world; from this anecdotal evidence, Ainouz assembles a subtle, salutory story about the machinery of machismo. (KG)

A young Brazilian man attempts to flee his country by stowing away in the hold of an airplane. As he freezes to death, his dying memories of the sexual hypocrisies of his native land, interwoven with a tourist's impression of Brazil as an oversexed paradise, provide a somber look at one gay man's life. (imdb)

A collective film, coordinated by Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande (see also The Joy). They sent a letter of 'unease' to filmmakers in which they asked for love, utopia and explosions... The many-faceted and poetic result is wonderful to watch and balm to the soul. An experimental collective film lasting little more than an hour, compiled from 10 episodes by a total of 14 different young Brazilian filmmakers. (imdb)

Short after facing the failure of an attempt to rescue a drowning man, Donato meets Konrad, friend of the victim. Motivated by the circumstances, Donato decides to begin a new life in Berlin, but pieces of his past are coming after him. (imdb)

The film observes the refugee crisis in the middle of Europe, at the defunct Tempelhof airport in Berlin. Built by the Nazis, the gigantic hangars of Tempelhof now host immigrants who flee the war. Central Airport THF focuses on an 18-year-old Syrian and a 35-year-old Iraqi man. Aïnouz criticises the "hysterical coverage of the refugees in the media.

Rio de Janeiro in the 1940s, the life of Guida and Euridice Gusmão, raised to be invisible in the eyes of the Brazilian society of that time, like all the other women of that generation. (imdb)

The Earth pos-pandemic.

A journey through space and time in Argel.

Accompanying activist Nardjes with his camera, Karim Aïnouz captures a picture of a youth that is confidently taking to the streets for a democratic future for Algeria, the country for whose independence their parents and grandparents once fought.

In Tudor England, Catherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII, is named Regent while Henry fights overseas. Catherine has done everything she can to push for a new future based on her radical Protestant beliefs. When an increasingly ailing and paranoid King returns, he turns his fury on the radicals, charging Catherine’s childhood friend with treason and burning her at the stake. Horrified and grieving but forced to deny it, Catherine finds herself fighting for her own survival.

Love between a young man who lives against a system that wants him dead and a woman who resists the attacks of patriarchy against her own life.