This research s purpose is to analyze director Karim Aïnouz s filmography under a political perspective. Cinema is an art form born through modernity – it s the result of technological innovations of the 19th Century. It served the avantgarde utopias, the revolutionaries against oppression, as one of the means to enlighten the masses. In Brazil, Cinema Novo is the paradigm of the national and cultural emancipation struggle. In today s context, when the great modernity ideals seem to be weakened and a post-utopic thought is installed, the relationship between cinema and politics is reconfigured. The absence of both a common goal and of totalizing solutions from the moviemakers gives the impression of an atomized struggle with doubtful efficacy. Thus, there s an attempt to investigate the extent in which Karim Aïnouz tries to instigate the viewers to change the state of things (Rancière). His personal trajectory, the recurring themes and scenes, as well as the aesthetics of the films, will be mapped to try to recognize not only singularities, but also similarities with other contemporary filmmakers, especially Brazilian ones – not in search for an uniformity but questing dialogues and generational convergences. The main focus is in the relationship between art and politics inferred from each film s narrative, the character s selection and the questions that Aïnouz tries to pose to the audience. It s also in the aesthetics and in his personal process, through which the calligraphy of Aïnouz view can be unveiled. The way he realizes his film s political possibilities, as well as the questions he poses to society and moviemaking, helps discussing the challenges of cinema against the stagnated mentality of the post- time where we seem to be living now (Rancière). It will also be discussed some resurgences (survivals) of Cinema Novo and how they are reworked in the analyzed films.