Movies by Kleber Mendonça Filho

Bacurau

Bacurau

Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.

Crítico

Crítico

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.

Pictures of Ghosts

Pictures of Ghosts

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. And that’s just part of the story.

Peace to This House

Peace to This House

A film photo-montage about an old house that belonged to a traditional local family that was later demolished.

Friday Night, Saturday Morning

Friday Night, Saturday Morning

Friday Night Saturday Morning is 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 lovers, each on a different side of the world; he is in Recife, she is in Kiev. On one side is dark, on the other light, but both experience the same emotions and hence feel nearness and contact.

The Little Cotton Girl

The Little Cotton Girl

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

Eletrodoméstica

Eletrodoméstica

A middle-class family living in a house filled with superfluous electronic appliances see the arrival of a new item, a 29" TV-set.