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Kleber Mendonça Filho

Kleber MENDONÇA FILHO (1968, Brazil) is a film director, screenwriter and producer whose work explores the social and political fabric of Brazilian life. Beginning in the 1990s, he experimented with fiction, documentary and music videos before releasing his first feature Neighbouring Sounds (2012), an incisive portrait of middle-class Recife that was named one of the year’s best films by The New York Times. His subsequent features Aquarius (2016) and Pictures of Ghosts (2023) were also included in the paper’s best-of lists. Aquarius competed for the Palme d’Or at Cannes and earned a Best International Film nomination at the Independent Spirit Awards. His third fiction feature Bacurau (2019) won the Jury Prize at Cannes and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2025, his latest film The Secret Agent, set amid the political turmoil of Brazil’s military dictatorship,  became the most awarded title of the Cannes Film Festival of the year. 

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), O agente secreto/The Secret Agent (2025)

More info: Wikipedia, Kleber Mendonça Filho

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