Aki Kaurismäki

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4 de abril de 1957 (69 anos)
Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (Finnish: [ˈɑki ˈkɑu̯rismæki]; born April 4,1957; Orimattila) is a Finnish film director, screenwriter, producer, editor and actor. He is best known for the award-winning Drifting Clouds (1996), The Man Without a Past (2002), Le Havre (2011), The Other Side of Hope (2017) and Fallen Leaves (2023), as well as for the mockumentary Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989). He is described as Finland's best-known film director. He is the younger brother of director and screenwriter Mika Kaurismäki.

After graduating in media studies from the University of Tampere, Kaurismäki worked as a bricklayer, postman, and dish-washer, long before pursuing his interest in cinema, first as a critic, and later as a screenwriter & director. He started his career as a co-screenwriter and actor in films made by his older brother, Mika Kaurismäki. He played the main role in Mika's film The Liar (1981). Together they founded the production company Villealfa Filmproductions and later the Midnight Sun Film Festival. His debut as an independent director was Crime and Punishment (1983), an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel set in modern Helsinki. He gained worldwide attention with Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989).

Kaurismäki's film Ariel (1988) was entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Prix FIPRESCI. Kaurismäki's most acclaimed film has been The Man Without a Past, which won the Grand Prix and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category in 2003. However, Kaurismäki refused to attend the Oscar ceremony, asserting that he did not feel like partying in a country that was in a state of war. Kaurismäki's next film, Lights in the Dusk, was also chosen to be Finland's nominee for best foreign-language film, but Kaurismäki again boycotted the awards and refused the nomination, as a protest against U.S. President George W. Bush's foreign policy. In 2002 Kaurismäki also boycotted the 40th New York Film Festival in a show of solidarity with the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, who was not given a US visa in time for the festival. Kaurismäki's 2017 film The Other Side of Hope won the Silver Bear for Best Director award at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. At the same festival he also announced that it would be his last film, although the retirement was short-lived as he began filming Fallen Leaves in 2022, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023.

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  • Folhas Caídas
    Folhas Caídas2023
  • O Homem Sem Passado
    O Homem Sem Passado2002
  • Le Havre
    Le Havre2011
  • A Rapariga da Fábrica de Fósforos
    A Rapariga da Fábrica de Fósforos1990
  • O Outro Lado da Esperança
    O Outro Lado da Esperança2017
  • Nuvens Passageiras
    Nuvens Passageiras1996
  • Contratei um Assassino
    Contratei um Assassino1990
  • Luzes no Crepúsculo
    Luzes no Crepúsculo2006
  • A Vida de Boémia
    A Vida de Boémia1992
  • Ariel
    Ariel1988
  • Cowboys de Leningrado Vão Para a América
    Cowboys de Leningrado Vão Para a América1989
  • Sombras no paraíso
    Sombras no paraíso1986
  • Juha
    Juha1999
  • Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana
    Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana1994
  • Calamari Union
    Calamari Union1985
  • Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
    Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet2002
  • Hamlet vai à luta
    Hamlet vai à luta1987
  • Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses
    Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses1994
  • Cada um o seu Cinema
    Cada um o seu Cinema2007
  • Crime and Punishment
    Crime and Punishment1983

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