Karim Aïnouz on Algeria, ‘Mariner of the Mountains,’ ‘Nardjes A.’ and His First English-Lingo Film
Ed Meza @edmezavarFor Berlin-based Brazilian filmmaker Karim Aïnouz, traveling to Algeria in 2019 to visit his father’s homeland became an emotional journey that not only resulted in his latest work, the Cannes title “Mariner of the Mountains,” but also the documentary “Nardjes A.,” which premiered last year in Berlin.“Mariner of the Mountains,” which unspools in Special Screenings Friday, is Aïnouz’s most personal film since one of his earliest works, the 1993 short “Seams,” about his grandmother and her four sisters, “which was kind of the seeds of this film,” the director tells Variety.Aïnouz grew up in the northeastern Brazilian city of Fortaleza, where he was raised by his mother and grandmother.