Karim Aïnouz is a film director involved in the visual arts, with a cinematography built on minimal dramaturgies, featuring stark color contrasts, scenic power, and characters whose existence straddle free-will and fatality, revealing universal dilemmas in intimate, private situations. He graduated in Architecture from the University of Brasília (UNB), Brazil; completed a master’s degree in Film Theory from the New York University (NYU), in New York, the United States; and a specialization in Culture Theory from the independent studies program of the Whitney Museum of American Art, also in New York. He made his film debut with the feature film Madame Satã (2002), selected for the Un Certain Regard program of the Cannes Film Festival. He followed the film with Love for Sale (2006), The Silver Cliff (2011) and Praia do Futuro (2014), as well as several short films. Alongside Marcelo Gomes, Aïnouz directed I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You (2009) and created the video installation Se Tudo Fosse Sempre Assim, at the invitation of the 26th São Paulo Art Biennial, in Brazil (2004). He also collaborated with the Danish artist Olafur Eliasson for the video installation Your Empathic City (2011), on occasion of the 17th Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil. The collaboration also developed into the Videobrasil Authors Collection film Domingo (2014). Karim Aïnouz resides in Berlin, Germany, but works constantly in three Brazilian cities: Fortaleza, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo.