Kleber Mendonça Filho
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- November 22, 1968, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
- Movies
- 34
Kleber Mendonça Filho (born November 22, 1968) is a Brazilian film director, screenwriter and producer. 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.
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Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2026 | Each Day in a Moment: 2025 | Self (uncredited) |
| 2023 | Room 999 | Self |
| 2023 | Pictures of Ghosts | Self / Narrator |
| 2019 | Bacurau no Mapa | Self |
| 2019 | Passages: Travelling In and Out of Film Through Brazilian Geography | |
| 2014 | Recife, Cidade Roubada | ele mesmo |
| 2014 | Love Film Festival | Himself |
| 2008 | Critic | Self (voice) |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2026 | South of Tehran | Director |
| 2025 | The Secret Agent | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 2024 | Sleep with Your Eyes Open | Producer |
| 2024 | Heartless | Producer |
| 2024 | Seu Cavalcanti | Producer |
| 2023 | Pictures of Ghosts | Writer, Director |
| 2019 | Bacurau no Mapa | Director |
| 2019 | Bacurau | Director, Writer |
| 2016 | Aquarius | Director, Screenplay |
| 2014 | The World Cup in Recife | Director, Writer |
| 2012 | Neighboring Sounds | Director, Screenplay |
| 2011 | Mens Sana in Corpore Sano | Producer |
| 2011 | Jogo sem Gandula | Director, Screenplay |
| 2009 | Cold Tropics | Director, Writer |
| 2008 | Critic | Director, Screenplay, Producer |
| 2006 | Friday Night, Saturday Morning | Director, Producer, Screenplay |
| 2005 | Eletrodoméstica | Director, Screenplay, Producer |
| 2004 | Green Vinyl | Director, Screenplay |
| 2002 | The Little Cotton Girl | Director, Screenplay |
| 1997 | Caged In | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 1995 | Lixo nos Canais | Director, Writer |
| 1995 | Keychain | Director, Screenplay |
| 1994 | Peace to This House | Director, Producer |
| 1992 | Casa de Imagem | Director, Screenplay, Producer |
| 1992 | Homem de Projeção | Director, Producer, Screenplay |
| 1991 | Travelling | Director |
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