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Kleber Mendonça Filho

Kleber MENDONÇA FILHO (1968, Brazil) is a film journalist (for CinemaScópio) and a prolific filmmaker. In his work, he focuses on love and fear. At IFFR 2007, five of his short films were presented in a ‘Short Profile’. Neighbouring Sounds (2012) was his long-awaited first feature. In 2016, his second, Aquarius, premiered in Cannes. His latest feature Bacurau, co-directed with Juliano Dornelles, won the Jury Prize at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.

Filmography

(selection) Enjaulado/Caged In (1997, short), A menina do algodao/The Little Cotton Girl (2003, short), Vinil verde/Green Vinyl (2004, short), Eletrodoméstica (2005, short), Noite de sexta manhã de sábado/Friday Night Saturday Morning (2006, short), Critico (2008, doc), Luz industrial magica (2009, short), Recife frio/Cold Tropics (2010, short), O som ao redor/Neighbouring Sounds (2012), A Copa do Mundo no Recife/The World Cup in Recife (2015, short), Aquarius (2016), Bacurau (2019, co-dir)

More info: Wikipedia, Kleber Mendonça Filho

Kleber Mendonça Filho at IFFR

  • Neighbouring Sounds

    Meandering past the residents of a wealthy street in Recife, where private security guards ply their trade, this self-assured debut portrays the two s

    • Hubert Bals Fund
    • Tigers

  • Green Vinyl

    A mother gives her daughter a box of old gramophone records. She’s not allowed to listen to the green record. If she does it will have disastrous cons

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Friday Night Saturday Morning

    Small-scale romantic story about two lovers who are at opposite ends of the world.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Eletrodoméstica

    If the housekeeping of this Brazilian family remains punctual, everyone will come into their own.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Enjaulado

    Confusing horror about a man pursued by traumas who is locked in his own world.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • The Little Cotton Girl

    Meta-docu thriller in photo stills about a dead girl who appeared in the 1970s in the public toilets of Recife.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Eletrodoméstica

    If the housekeeping of this Brazilian family remains punctual, everyone will come into their own.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Bacurau

    A furious genre mash-up of Western, horror and sci-fi that projects Brazil’s disturbing reality several years into the future.

    • Limelight

  • A Copa do Mundo no Recife

    The football World Cup disrupted public life in Recife in June 2014. An astonished yet perceptive look at this sporting event by Tiger winner Mendonça

    • As Long As It Takes: Short

  • Neighbouring Sounds

    Meandering past the residents of a wealthy street in Recife, where private security guards ply their trade, this self-assured debut portrays the two s

    • Tiger Awards Competition