Dome Karukoski
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Dome Karukoski (born December 29, 1976) is a Finnish film director, His feature Beauty and the Bastard (Tyttö sinä olet tähti) showed at the Berlin International Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival in 2006. The film. which stars Pamela Tola, concerns young people in Finland who are caught between conventional careers and more alternative forms of living. The film's score contains contemporary Finnish pop music, particularly hip-hop and rap.
He won the Norwegian national film prize Amanda (award) Sponsored by Canal+ & Svensk Filmindustri AB) for best Nordic Debut-Film.
Karukoski is the son of the American actor and poet George Dickerson. He was born in Cyprus.
