Mika Kaurismäki is a Finnish director and screenwriter. He is the elder brother of Aki Kaurismäki, and the father of actresses Maria and Anna-Maija Kaurismäki . Mika Kaurismäki lived in Brazil from approximately 1992 to late 2019, but has since left he country because he disagrees with President Bolsonaro's politics.

Filmography

• 2026Amongst the Birds — Director
• 2025Every Note You Play — Director
• 2024Long Good Thursday — Director
• 2023Hassisen Kone 40 Years After — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 2023Hassisen Kone stadionilla — Director, Producer
• 2022The Grump: In Search of an Escort — Director
• 2021Gracious Night — Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
• 2019Master Cheng — Director, Producer
• 2018Over the Limit — Co-Producer
• 2018Ryhmäteatteri — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2015Homecoming — Director, Producer, Screenplay
• 2015The Girl King — Director, Producer
• 2012Kuningas Litmanen — Writer
• 2012Road North — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2011Brothers — Director, Producer, Editor, Writer, Idea
• 2011Mama Africa — Director, Writer
• 2010Vesku from Finland — Director
• 2009The House of Branching Love — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 2008Sonic Mirror — Director, Writer
• 2008Three Wise Men — Director, Writer, Producer, Dialogue, Editor
• 2005Brasileirinho — Director
• 2004Honey Baby — Director, Writer
• 2004Welcome to São Paulo — Director, Director of Photography
• 2002Moro no Brasil — Director, Writer
• 2000Highway Society — Writer, Producer, Director
• 2000VÄNÄ
• 1999L.A. Without a Map — Michael Bambihill (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
• 1998Sand Bride — Producer
• 1997Vaiennut kylä — Producer
• 1996Danish Girls Show Everything — Director
• 1996Sambolico — Director, Screenplay
• 1995Condition Red — Director
• 1995Daughters of Yemanjá — Producer
• 1994Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made — Director, Editor, Producer, Writer
• 1993The Last Border — Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
• 1991Zombie and the Ghost Train — Director, Screenplay, Story, Editor, Producer
• 1990Amazon — Director, Producer, Writer
• 1989Cha Cha Cha — Producer, Editor, Director, Writer
• 1989Paper Star — Haastattelija (voice), Director, Producer, Story, Screenplay
• 1988Yötyö — Director
• 1987Helsinki Napoli All Night Long — Writer, Director, Idea, Producer, Executive Producer
• 1986Morena — Production Manager, Assistant Director
• 1986Shadows in Paradise — Producer
• 1985Pimeys odottaa — Producer
• 1985Rosso — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1984Kello — Editor
• 1984The Clan: Tale of the Frogs — Director, Screenplay, Editor
• 1983Crime and Punishment — Producer
• 1983Huhtikuu on kuukausista julmin — Editor
• 1982Jackpot 2 — Editor, Director, Writer, Producer
• 1982The Worthless — Director, Producer, Writer
• 1981The Liar — Director, Producer
• 1981The Saimaa Gesture — Self - Man in Crowd (uncredited), Director, Producer, Writer
• 1979Smash - Gefahr aus der Unendlichkeit — Assistant Camera

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2015Mika Kaurismäki, elokuvaohjaaja — self
• 2011Bohemian Eyes — Self