Kleber Mendonça Filho Filmes

In Brazil in 1977, Marcelo, a technology specialist fleeing a mysterious past, returns to Recife in search of peace, but realizes the city is far...

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

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...

Recife, undergoing so many changes, was the scene of a party of joy and tension, sports and politics. A happy experience, but full of the...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

The sequence of graduation of law graduates in Seu Cavalcanti helps to understand the Sergio Moro phenomenon in Brazil.

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

No measure of hellfire preaching can quell the boisterous and bawdy passions of Maracatu, an Afro-Brazilian burlesque carnival tradition with roots...

A mix of documentary and compilation, this work is the result of extensive archival research whose mission was to find the most absurd commercials on...

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