Karim Aïnouz is an award-winning film director, screenwriter and visual artist.
His first feature, Madame Satã, premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard in 2002. He also directed Love for Sale, 2006 (Venice Orizzonti), I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You, 2009 (Venice Orizzonti), and The Silver Cliff, 2011 (Cannes Directors’ Fortnight). In 2014 Futuro Beach screened in the Berlinale Competition.
The documentary Central Airport THF premiered at the 68th Berlinale (Panorama) and won the Amnesty International Prize. The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão, his latest feature, won the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
Aïnouz has co-directed the TV series Alice for HBO Latin America. His installations and collaborative projects as a visual artist have been part of exhibitions such as Sharjah, São Paulo and Whitney Museum Biennials. He is also a screenwriting tutor at the Porto Iracema das Artes in Fortaleza, Brazil. Since 2017 Aïnouz is member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.