Kleber Mendonça Filho Trailers
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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.
Most Popular Kleber Mendonça Filho Trailers
Total trailers found: 33
23 July 2025
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 soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.
26 January 2024
The sequence of graduation of law graduates in Seu Cavalcanti helps to understand the Sergio Moro phenomenon in Brazil.
21 October 2019
Passages showcases Brazilian films in which the utilisation of artforms and media such as literature, painting, theatre, music, photography, radio and television, functions as a 'passage' to political and social reality.
05 October 2023
In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666.
29 August 2019
Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94.
01 September 2016
Clara, a vibrant former music critic and widow with flowing tresses is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers.
14 November 2019
No measure of hellfire preaching can quell the boisterous and bawdy passions of Maracatu, an Afro-Brazilian burlesque carnival tradition with roots in slavery that takes place in the northeast state of Pernambuco.
22 January 2008
Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic.
01 February 1991
Early experiments with VHS. Metros kinda look the same.
01 January 1997
Middle class man surrounded by fear and paranoia become prisoner of his own world.
01 January 2008
A couple on a trip.
24 August 2023
Downtown Recife’s classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost.
06 July 1995
A woman leaves her apartment to go pick up a newspaper, opening and closing a multiple of locks on her way out and back.
19 November 2012
An independent private security firm arrives at a middle-class neighborhood in Recife, Brazil.
18 April 2024
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 studies.
13 June 2024
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 store.
03 January 2011
A not very good little digital still camera, our little neighbours and a football. Home movie.
15 November 2006
A small-scale romantic love story, shot with a digital camera in black & white and in a documentary style.
05 October 2014
Filmed over six years in four countries: Portugal, Brazil, Colombia and United States, this romantic drama tells the story of Luzia, a Brazilian screenwriter, and Adrian, a Colombian actor, that fall in love during a film festival in 2009 and will live a fragmented love story while competing in different film festivals around the world.
25 November 2004
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 green one.
20 November 2009
In tropical Recife, in northeastern Brazil, temperatures drop to impossible lows and the inhabitants have to adapt.
19 December 2019
Behind the scenes of Bacurau (2019)'s shooting and pre-production. With exclusive images, directors Kléber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles show how they made the film an audience and critical success.
13 July 1995
This work, an experimental film, is the result of extensive archival research whose mission was to find the most absurd commercials on TV in Pernambuco, memorable VTs in the 80s and 90s marked by aesthetic rudeness and sometimes naive communication.
01 February 1992
Short documentary about Cine Art Palácio in Recife-PE, Brazil.
01 January 2002
The urban legend of the "cotton girl." The dead girl appeared in the bathrooms of schools to terrorize children.
25 August 2005
A middle-class family living in a house filled with superfluous electronic appliances see the arrival of a new item, a 29" TV-set.
02 August 2014
Recife, undergoing so many changes, was the scene of a party of joy and tension, sports and politics.
31 July 1994
A film photo-montage about an old house that belonged to a traditional local family that was later demolished.
01 August 2011
Flavio Danillo is a personal trainer whose students attend him at the gym. At home, Flavio works his body into a state of decay.
