When Armando (Wagner Moura) finally resolves to seek a fake passport and one-way ticket out of Brazil for himself and his young son, he asks his father-in-...
Following up his documentary Pictures of Ghosts, Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho has unveiled his first narrative feature since 2019's Bacurau. He'll ...
Nothing gold can stay. So the saying goes and is thoughtfully illustrated in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s latest film Pictures of Ghosts. It’s a mosaic portrait of ...
Kleber Mendonça Filho followed his epic Bacurau with a lower-key reflection on his personal cinematic life. A hit at last year's Cannes Film Festival, Pictures...
If the death of cinema is imminent, at least Kleber Mendonça Filho can play it out with some vintage Tropicália. It’s becoming a nice leitmotif of the Brazilia...
One of the great Brazilian directors working today, Kleber Mendonça Filho's recent epic Bacurau was unfortunately thwarted in its U.S. release, coming out as t...
We can thank the limitations of the past year as it relates to filmmaking for an increased output of small-scale features as directors weren't able to bring to...
One week before Craig Zobel's The Hunt finally gets a release, another film looking at the class divide with a genre touch will also come to U.S. theaters. Kle...
With three features to date, Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho has distinguished himself as one of the most eclectic voices in world cinema. We caught up with the director at the Marrakech International Film Festival....
The school in the fictional village of Bacurau, located somewhere in the desert hinterlands of north-eastern Brazil, bears the name of one João Carpinteiro. If ...
