Alexis Kouros (born 1961 in Kermanshah, Iran) is a Finnish writer, documentary-maker, director and producer. 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...
His first book, Gondwana's Children, won the Finlandia Junior award in 1997. His first film was the 2000 documentary, Waiting for Godot at De Gaulle, the story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri. This is a list of film-related events in 2000. ... The Terminal Man, a book written by Merhan and Andrew Donkin Merhan Karimi Nasseri, also known as Sir, Alfred Merhan, is an Iranian refugee who has been living in the departure lounge of terminal one in Charles de Gaulle Airport since August 8, 1988. ...
He also directed a documentary called Without My Daughter in response to the 1991 Hollywood movie, Not Without My Daughter. He started his production company Dream Catcher. The company started publishing Finland's first English language monthly called SixDegrees in 2003. Helsinki Times, a weekly English newspaper was stablished by Dream Catcher in April 2007. Without My Daughter (2002, Finland) is a 90-minute documentary directed by Karim Baker and Alexis Kouros. ... Movie Poster Not Without My Daughter is a 1990 film based on the story of American Betty Mahmoodys escape, with her young daughter, from her Muslim husband in the Islamic Republic of Iran. ...
Leaving his homeland in 1983, Kouros studied medicine in the land of Magyars, but came in the 1990s to specialise in Finland, where there was a shortage of doctors.
Kouros studied film-making whilst still in Iran, and was forced to exercise his skills filming war in his homeland in the conflict with Iraq.
Kouros' diversity is also indicated by two published books for children, the first of which, Gondwana's children, won the Finlandia Junior Award in 1997.
But Kouros told IRNA that the opposite was true about Bozorg Mahmoody, who is currently preparing his own memoirs to be published in English and Farsi, saying he is highly educated and worked as an anaesthetist in a Tehran hospital.
Kouros, previously a medical doctor, has made two previous documentaries, 'Waiting for Godot in De Gaulle', based upon the 11-year-old plight of an Iranian living in a Paris airport and a UNHCR film on how 200 Afghan refugees in Iran were selected to live in Finland.
Kouros said that 'Without My Daughter,' which is currently on release in Finland, was financed by television channels in Finland, Sweden and Denmark as well as a French-German station, but received no funding at all from Iran.
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