Aki Kaurismäki

Born in Ori­mat­ti­la in Fin­land, he nev­er entered the Finnish Film School as he was sus­pect­ed to be “too cyn­i­cal”. His min­i­mal­ist style is all his own and he man­aged to stick total­ly to the real­i­ties of the real world that only the 35 mm film makes pos­si­ble. A Cannes Film Fes­ti­val reg­u­lar, many of his films won an award on the Croisette such as Drift­ing Clouds (1996 Ecu­meni­cal Jury Prize), The Man with­out a Past (2002 Grand Prize), Le Havre (2011 FIPRESCI Prize) and recent­ly Fall­en Leaves (2023 Jury Prize).