Aki Kaurismäki in the 80st century practically disappeared from the scene. Although his filmography in the 90s and XNUMXs is full of titles, in this one he would only add two more solo to his long career, although collaborated in up to three films shot between various filmmakers.
His first contribution to the new millennium was in the German production "Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet”Of 2002 in which he participated along with six other film masters such as Wim Wenders, Víctor Erice, Werner Herzog, Chen Kaige, Spike Lee and Jim Jarmusch. A film of episodes where each director gives his peculiar vision of time conceived as a metaphysical entity.
Also that same year he filmed his film "A man without a past", this is the second installment of what is considered his trilogy of Finland or trilogy of unemployment. This film achieved great success not only in his country, but also internationally. The movie got the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film FestivalIn addition to that of the Ecunemic Jury and that of best actress for Kati Outinen, she received the FIPRESCI Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival and the Swedish Film Academy awarded her the Guldbagge Award for the best foreign film. At the Jussi Awards in his country Kaurismäki, for this film, he received the awards for best director and best screenplay, and the film was presented for represent the country as the best foreign film at the Oscars getting to be nominated, although the filmmaker refused to participate in the awards ceremony in protest of the recent war launched by the United States against Iraq.
In 2004 Kaurismäki returned to shoot a film with several directors «Visions of Europe«, In this case the film is directed by 25 filmmakers, each from a state of the European Union. Each episode of this feature film lasts five minutes and its authors had the conditions that the action took place in their country of origin and in the present or immediate future, in addition all the filmmakers had the same budget to carry out their works . Among the most prominent conductors that we can see accompanying Kaurismäki are Fatih Akin, Béla Tarr, Sharunas Bartas and Peter Greenaway.
With "Lights at Sunset" in 2006, for the first time in his career, he got one of his films to get the Jussi Award from the Finnish Film Academy for best film. They wanted to present the film to the Oscars on behalf of Finland, but Kaurismäki refused, claiming that it was against the policy of the United States and its president at that time Gerge W. Bush.
In 2008 he again collaborated in a film with other filmmakers, this time to perform tribute to the Cannes Film Festival on its 60th anniversary, "To each his cinema." 35 of the best directors in the world come together to honor the great French competition and cinema in general with 33 three-minute short films. Among them we can the Dardenne brothers, Takeshi Kitano, Gus Van Sant, Lars Von Trier or Los Hermanos Coen. The DVD edition included an extra short by David Lynch.
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