He has described himself as "accidentally Algerian". Karim Aïnouz was born and raised in Brazil, but his father hails from the mountains of Kabylia, in Algeria. In early 2019, the filmmaker travelled to the region for the very first time, a trip that he documents in his latest film "Mariner of the Mountains".
As the feature makes its debut in Cannes, he tells us about that quest for a fatherland, his discovery of a revolutionary spirit among the Algerian youth and why the presence of Brazilian artists at festivals like Cannes belies a catastrophic situation in the cultural sector under the Bolsonaro administration.
