Juho Kuosmanen
Directing
- Born
- September 30, 1979 (age 47) · 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 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.
Known for
Compartment No. 6
October 29, 2021
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
September 2, 2016
The Painting Sellers
September 3, 2010
Pony Freak
December 21, 2014
Moonshiners
April 23, 2017
Scrap-Mattila and the Beautiful Woman
June 13, 2012
Silent Trilogy
October 20, 2024
A Planet Far Away
September 9, 2023
Roadmarkers
January 1, 2007
Citizens
August 6, 2008
Behind the camera11
- 2024Silent Trilogy Director, Screenplay, Editor
- 2023A Planet Far Away Dialogue, Director
- 2021Compartment No. 6 Screenplay, Director
- 2017Moonshiners Director, Writer
- 2016The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki Director, Writer
- 2014Pony Freak Director, Writer, Editor
- 2012Scrap-Mattila and the Beautiful Woman Director, Editor, Writer
- 2010The Painting Sellers Director, Production Design
- 2008Citizens Dramaturgy, Director
- 2007