Films by Karim Aïnouz

Brasil, France, Germany 2021, 99 min
by Karim Aïnouz

Algerien par accident flirts between the fiction and the documentary, even the auto-fiction. Karim Aïnouz, the Brazilian director, by using his personal background, invites the audience to follow/discover an incredible journey through space and time, with an original and usually unknown prism/aspect: The strong bound between Algeria and Brazil, two countries with political and revolutionary strikes that moulded their evolution.With the support of: ANCINE, ARTE FRANCE - LA LUCARNE, CNC, PROCIREP ANGOA, SANAD, Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Literary Colloquium as part of the Grenzgänger funding programme, Fundação Paradiso

2020, 80 min
by Karim Aïnouz

Algeria, February 2019. A popular pacifist uprising erupts against the candidacy of president Bouteflika for a 5th term, steadily swelling into a revolution. Nardjes, a young Algerian woman, takes part in the movement to convey the hope of her people. Shot on the 8th of March 2019, International Women's Day, the film draws a portrait of her as she joins thousands of protesters in the streets of Algiers, fighting to overthrow a regime that has silenced them for decades. We follow her, while her whole country could be marching towards a brighter future.

Germany, France, Brasil 2018, 97 min
by Karim Aïnouz

Berlin's historic defunct Tempelhof Airport remains a place of arrivals and departures. Today its massive hangars are used as Germany's largest emergency shelter for asylum seekers, like 18-year-old Syrian refugee Ibrahim. As Ibrahim adjusts to his transitory daily life of social services interviews, German lessons and medical exams, he tries to cope with homesickness and the anxiety of whether or not he will gain residency or be deported. (LUXBOX)A documentary about Berlin‘s former airport Tempelhof, opened in 1923 as one of the world‘s biggest building complexes in the 3rd Reich. Since then more than 30 million arrivals and departures have been counted. It was closed 10 years ago. But up until now it remains a place of departures an arrivals.A film about those Berliners who come here to escape from their daily lives and those refugees who came here to finally arrive somewhere. (LupaFilm)

Germany 2014, 156 min
by Wim Wenders, Michael Glawogger, Michael Madsen, Robert Redford, Margreth Olin, Karim Aïnouz

'If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?' Cathedrals of Culture offers six startling responses to this question. 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, a scientific monastery on the California coast; 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.