Karim Aïnouz

Rosebush Pruning (2026)

In a Spanish villa, American siblings Jack, Ed, Anna and Robert wallow in isolation and their inherited fortune. When Jack wants to move in with his girlfriend and Ed uncovers the truth about their mother's death, the fabric of the family begins to unravel ...

Motel Destino (2024)

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 d ...

Firebrand (2024)

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. ...

Mariner of the Mountains (2023)

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, ...

Nardjes A. (2021)

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. ...

Mission Persephone (2020)

The Earth post-pandemic. ...

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing (2019)

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 i ...

We Still Have the Deep Black Night (2019)

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 ...

Invisible Life (2019)

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 h ...

O Sol na Cabeça (2018)

Central Airport THF (2018)

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. ...

Velázquez – Wild Realism (2015)

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. ...

Short Plays (2014)

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

Cathedrals of Culture (2014)

"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 fr ...

Futuro Beach (2014)

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. ...

Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)

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. ...

The Man Who Defused Bombs (2013)

A short film made for "Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded". A detonation expert dives into a lake. ...

Keep the Lights On (2012)

In 1997 New York City, filmmaker Erik bonds with closeted lawyer Paul after a one-night fling. As their relationship evolves through dysfunctional patterns, Erik struggles to negotiate his own boundaries while being true to himself. ...

The Silver Cliff (2011)

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. ...

Sunny Lane (2011)

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. ...

Destricted.br experimental (2011)

Neverquiet (Film of Wonders) (2011)

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 ...

Alice Especial, Part 1: The First Day of the Rest of My Life (2010)

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 ...

Bra (2010)

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, T ...

The Joy (2010)

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 ni ...

I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You (2010)

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 t ...

OK (2007)

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. ...

Love for Sale (2006)

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 ...

Lower City (2005)

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. ...

Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (2005)

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. ...

If It Where Always Like This (2004)

Video installation, in 16mm film. ...

Pool Acrylic Blue Hinterland (2004)

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. ...

Madame Satã (2002)

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. ...

Behind the Sun (2001)

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 ...

Rifa-me (2000)

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 k ...

Les Ballons des Bairros (1998)

Hic Habitat Felicitas (1996)

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 ...

Irreversible Metabolic Shock (1996)

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. ...

Dead Presidents (1995)

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 robber ...

Seams (1993)

An experimental narrative about machismo in the Northeast of Brazil. ...

Swoon (1992)

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, ...

O Preso (1992)

Poison (1991)

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. ...

La Divina (1989)

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. ...

Quando a Coisa Vira Outra (2022)

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 n ...

Saudade (2017)

About Cinema (2015)

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 Loac ...

Cinema in 7 Colors (2008)

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, ...

Critic (2008)

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 ...