Juho Kuosmanen
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- September 30, 1979
- Place of birth
- Kokkola, Finland
Biography
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.
Movies with Juho Kuosmanen
- Fallen Leaves 2023 · ★ 7.1
- The Other Side of Hope 2017 · ★ 6.9
- 8 Days to Premiere 2008 · ★ 4.4
- The Princess of Egypt 2013 · ★ 5.2
- The Dinosaur 2021 · ★ 5.8
- Cinéma Laika 2023 · ★ 8.0
- Conversations Between Men 2013
Movies directed by Juho Kuosmanen
- Compartment No. 6 2021 · ★ 7.0
- The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki 2016 · ★ 6.6
- The Painting Sellers 2010 · ★ 5.4
- Pony Freak 2014 · ★ 4.0
- Moonshiners 2017 · ★ 6.3
- Scrap-Mattila and the Beautiful Woman 2012 · ★ 6.7
- Silent Trilogy 2024 · ★ 7.0
- A Planet Far Away 2023 · ★ 8.0
- Roadmarkers 2007 · ★ 6.0
- Citizens 2008