Dome Karukoski

Dome Karukoski

Nascimento : 1976-12-29, Nicosia, Cyprus

História

Thomas "Dome" Karukoski is a Finnish-Swedish film director. He is considered to be one of the most successful Finnish film directors with over 30 festival awards and having directed six feature films that have all become blockbusters in the territory.

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Dome Karukoski

Filmes

Lapland Odyssey 4
Executive Producer
Hunt for the elusive tofu in the Arctic Circle.
Wedding of the Century
Executive Producer
A celebrity psychiatrist struggles to find a date for a wedding. Her dearest ex is getting married and she needs to find someone fancy enough to hide the fact that she is lonely, drinks too much and is pretty fucked up in any imaginable way.
A Vida de Tove Jansson
Executive Producer
Em Helsinque, em 1945, o fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial traz um novo sentido de liberdade artística e social para a escritora e pintora finlandesa Tove Jansson. O filme conta a história da artista, mostrando seus relacionamentos pessoais e a criação das mundialmente famosas histórias dos Moomim.
Ladies of Steel
Producer
Inkeri, 75, has hit her husband on the head with a solid iron frying pan and is planning to bury him in their garden. Before facing the rest of her life in prison, there may yet be a moment left to really live. Inkeri makes her sisters Sylvi and Raili join her on a trip to the Koli National Park. Will Inkeri find in her that free young woman who desired a feminist revolution in the 70s?
Dogs Don´t Wear Pants
Executive Producer
Anos após a morte da esposa, Juha sofre de tristeza e arrependimento. Ao se deparar com o estúdio de uma dominadora, ele encontra conforto em Mona, que está tão disposta a punir Juha quanto ele está a ser punido. Como nenhum dos dois sabe até que ponto estão dispostos a ir, tudo sai de controle.
Tolkien
Director
O filme acompanha o autor J.R.R. Tolkien nos tempos de juventude, quando o órfão encontra amizade, amor e inspiração artística ao se juntar a um grupo de deslocados. Mas tudo muda quando ele é convocado para a Primeira Guerra Mundial, cujo caos ajuda na criação da Terra Média.
My Brother's Keeper
Producer
The story of a Finnish rap artist Cheek and his brother.
Wonderland
Executive Producer
Recently divorced Helena is getting anxious about spending christmas alone. Her best friend invites her to spend old time christmas on a farm - only place they can afford.
O Outro Lado da Esperança
Hooligan at the Bus Stop
Helsinki. Os destinos de Wikhström, um cinquentão que decide mudar de vida, abandonando a esposa alcoólatra e seu emprego para abrir um restaurante, se cruza com Khaled, um jovem refugiado Sírio que tem seu visto negado ao chegar na cidade. Tocado pela história do jovem imigrante, Wikhström decide o esconder em seu restaurante.
Tom da Finlândia
Director
A história de um dos maiores artistas homossexuais do século XX, Touko Laaksonen, mais conhecido como Tom da Finlândia. Ele não conseguia viver em paz dentro de sua casa, tendo que esconder seus segredos pessoais, mesmo depois do trauma de ter ido para a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Touko dcide então se expressar na arte.
Amor a Venda
Executive Producer
A blogueira de moda e estilo de vida Marja dá telefone e nome falso à Olavi , mas quando ela consegue um trabalho na empresa de catering de sua irmã para fazer face às despesas, que por coincidência um evento em que Olavi está, ela descobre que ele é dono de uma parte na empresa de papel bem sucedido de sua família rica. Um relacionamento com um dos homens mais ricos do país pode ser apenas o que seu blog precisa para conseguir um patrocínio, mas ela se encontra em conflito quando começa a se apaixonar por ele de verdade.
Amor a Venda
Self
A blogueira de moda e estilo de vida Marja dá telefone e nome falso à Olavi , mas quando ela consegue um trabalho na empresa de catering de sua irmã para fazer face às despesas, que por coincidência um evento em que Olavi está, ela descobre que ele é dono de uma parte na empresa de papel bem sucedido de sua família rica. Um relacionamento com um dos homens mais ricos do país pode ser apenas o que seu blog precisa para conseguir um patrocínio, mas ela se encontra em conflito quando começa a se apaixonar por ele de verdade.
The Mine
Executive Producer
A young and ambitious civil servant Jussi finds himself being in charge of the environmental permit of a huge nickel and uranium mine in Northern Finland. The Talvivaara mine, led by a charismatic globe trotting visioner Pekka Perä is introducing an entirely new method of collecting minerals whilst creating jobs in one of the poorest areas in Scandinavia. Jussi slowly discovers that he has been led astray by several people and that the new method has serious downsides he did not forsee. The mine is causing environmental hazards that are being hushed down. A new application for another permit is brough to his table by the same mine. Along with the application comes an interesting job offer and a chance of a new beginning. Jussi has to decide whether he will play along and if so, with whom.
Lapland Odyssey 2
Executive Producer
It’s been three years since we last met Janne and Inari. Since then, they’ve had a daughter named Lumi. Janne and his friends experience a new adventure, this time on an autumn night. The boys go to a party but end up chasing Lumi who has disappeared. Meanwhile, Inari enjoys a girls-night-out and has an adventure of her own.
Headfirst
Executive Producer
O filme conta a história de uma mãe solteira que tem dificuldade de controlar a raiva e de sua filha, uma garota que constantemente se envolve em problemas na escola. Junto com um novo colégio vem também um novo professor e uma bomba do passado da mãe. Um ladrão acidental e um péssimo contador de histórias se juntam a essa família disfuncional. E nada será como antes.
The Grump
Screenplay
A stubbornly traditional eighty-year-old farmer - whose social attitudes verge on the prehistoric - raises hell when he is forced to move in with his sadsack, city-dwelling son and domineering daughter-in-law.
The Grump
Director
A stubbornly traditional eighty-year-old farmer - whose social attitudes verge on the prehistoric - raises hell when he is forced to move in with his sadsack, city-dwelling son and domineering daughter-in-law.
Coração de Leão
Director
Teppo (Peter Franzén) é o líder de um grupo de Skinheads finlandeses se apaixona perdidamente por uma mulher que tem um filho mulato e se vê lutando com sentimentos conflitantes ao embarcar nesta relação.
Above Dark Waters
Markus-eno
A ravishing story about little Pete and his survival and growth in the gray area between love and fear.
Lapland Odyssey
Director
Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life, Janne wasn't even able to buy a digital TV box that Inari had given money for. Inari gives an ultimatum: a digital box needs to arrive by dawn or she leaves. Janne sets out into the night with his two friends to find a box. On their way to the city of Rovaniemi, Janne and his friends face many challenges, obstacles and temptations. They learn that they need to be daring. There's no room to give into bitterness. The most important thing isn't success, but rather the journey in itself.
On the Trail of the New Wave
Self
Forbidden Fruit
Director
Two 18-year old girls from a christian fundamentalist community flee to a city for a summer job.
The Home of Dark Butterflies
Director
Haunted by his traumatic past and cautious about the prospects of an uncertain future, a fourteen year old boy named Juhani winds up in an isolated boys' home known as The Island. Juhani has been shuttled between foster homes and temporary families for the past six years, leaving any prospect of stability in his life a faded dream. When Juhani winds up in a remote shelter for troubled youth known as The Island, he has little idea of how ruthless superintendent Olavi Harjula can truly be.
Beauty and the Bastard
Casting
Modern finnish movie about two very different young adults that after a chance meeting end up making music together and fall in love. While Nellis parents have the perfect career and man planned, she dreams of becoming a singer. Through a chance meeting at the studio, she meets the young and grungy Hip Hop music artist Sunen and asks him to help her make a demo tape. Not only is the ensuing story about differences growing closer and the difficulties that have to be overcome, well told. Also the music is exceptionally well made. It is quite unbelievable that this is the first feature of the director.
Beauty and the Bastard
Rowdy Hip-Hopper
Modern finnish movie about two very different young adults that after a chance meeting end up making music together and fall in love. While Nellis parents have the perfect career and man planned, she dreams of becoming a singer. Through a chance meeting at the studio, she meets the young and grungy Hip Hop music artist Sunen and asks him to help her make a demo tape. Not only is the ensuing story about differences growing closer and the difficulties that have to be overcome, well told. Also the music is exceptionally well made. It is quite unbelievable that this is the first feature of the director.
Beauty and the Bastard
Director
Modern finnish movie about two very different young adults that after a chance meeting end up making music together and fall in love. While Nellis parents have the perfect career and man planned, she dreams of becoming a singer. Through a chance meeting at the studio, she meets the young and grungy Hip Hop music artist Sunen and asks him to help her make a demo tape. Not only is the ensuing story about differences growing closer and the difficulties that have to be overcome, well told. Also the music is exceptionally well made. It is quite unbelievable that this is the first feature of the director.