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Juho Kuosmanen
Kokkola, Finland
Juho Kuosmanen (born 1979) is a Finnish film director and screenwriter. His first feature film The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki was screened in the Un Certain Regard sec…
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Juho Kuosmanen (born 1979) is a Finnish film director and screenwriter. His first feature film The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the top prize. In 2021, his second feature film Compartment No. 6 shared the Cannes Grand Prix (the festival's second prize) together with Asghar Farhadi's A Hero. Kuosmanen graduated from Aalto University in 2014. His graduation film The Painting Sellers was nominated for five Jussi Awards (Finnish premier film industry award). The Painting Sellers won the first prize in Cinéfondation in Cannes Film Festival in 2010. Kuosmanen worked as an actor in Leea Klemola's arctic trilogy in Tampere Theatre in Kokkola and New Karleby Kuosmanen has also directed opera with conductors Sakari Oramo and Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
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2024
Silent Trilogy
Movie Director
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2024
Alice & Jack
TV show Executive Producer
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2023
Fallen Leaves
Movie Karaoke Pub Patron (uncredited)
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2023
A Planet Far Away
Movie Dialogue
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2023
Cinéma Laika
Movie Self
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2022
Zone B
TV show Teleplay
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2021
Compartment No. 6
Movie Screenplay
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2021
The Dinosaur
Movie Self
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2020
Kakarat
TV show Director
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2017
Moonshiners
Movie Director
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2017
The Other Side of Hope
Movie Bus Passenger (uncredited)
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2016
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
Movie Director
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2014
Pony Freak
Movie Director
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2014
Nurses
TV show Gynekologi
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2013
The Princess of Egypt
Movie Lehdenjakaja
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2013
Conversations Between Men
Movie Avustaja
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2012
Scrap-Mattila and the Beautiful Woman
Movie Director
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2010
The Painting Sellers
Movie Director
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2008
Citizens
Movie Dramaturgy
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2008
8 Days to Premiere
Movie Teatterin näyttelijä
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2007
Roadmarkers
Movie Director
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Dream Come True
Movie Director
