Kleber Mendonça Filho
Kleber Mendonça Filho (born 1968) is a film director, screenwriter, producer, and critic, born in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. With a degree in Journalism from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Kleber Mendonça Filho began his career as a film critic and journalist. As a director, he experimented with fiction, documentary, and video clips in the 1990s. He migrated from video to digital and 35 mm film in the 2000s. Over the course of that decade, he made several short films. "O Som ao Redor" (Neighbouring Sounds, 2013) was Mendonça's first feature-length drama, winning numerous awards. Mendonça's films have received more than 120 awards in Brazil and abroad, with selections in festivals such as New York, Copenhagen and Cannes (Quinzaine des réalisateurs). Film festivals in Rotterdam, Toulouse, and Santa Maria da Feira have presented retrospectives of his films. He has served as programmer of cinema for the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation.
Crítico
as Self (voice)Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the...
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Pictures of Ghosts
as Self / NarratorDowntown Recife’s classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is...
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Room 999
as SelfIn 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema,...
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Love Film Festival
as HimselfFilmed over six years in four countries: Portugal, Brazil, Colombia and United States, this...
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Passages
as uncreditedPassages showcases Brazilian films in which the utilisation of artforms and media such as...
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Bacurau no Mapa
as SelfBehind the scenes of Bacurau (2019)'s shooting and pre-production. With exclusive images,...
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