Kleber Mendonça Filho Movies

Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but...

Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants...

Clara, a vibrant former music critic and widow with flowing tresses is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for...

A mother gives her daughter a box full of old, coloured little vinyl records. The daughter may listen to them, but she should never, ever, play the...

Passages showcases Brazilian films in which the utilisation of artforms and media such as literature, painting, theatre, music, photography, radio...

An independent private security firm arrives at a middle-class neighborhood in Recife, Brazil.

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and...

In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in...

One person’s perspective of the year 2025 shown through an accumulation of 365 unedited shots with one shot from each of the 365 days.

Flavio Danillo is a personal trainer whose students attend him at the gym. At home, Flavio works his body into a state of decay. Suddenly, his body...

Early experiments with VHS. Metros kinda look the same.

A coastal city in Brazil. Kai arrives from Taiwan for holidays with a broken heart. A broken air conditioner sends her into Fu Ang’s umbrella...

The urban legend of the "cotton girl." The dead girl appeared in the bathrooms of schools to terrorize children.

Downtown Recife’s classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that...

Summer 1996, north-east coast of Brazil. Tamara is enjoying her last weeks at the fishing village she lives in before departing to Brasilia for her...

Short documentary about Cine Art Palácio in Recife-PE, Brazil.

A small-scale romantic love story, shot with a digital camera in black & white and in a documentary style. We follow the conversation between two...

A woman leaves her apartment to go pick up a newspaper, opening and closing a multiple of locks on her way out and back.