Kleber Mendonça Filho

Kleber Mendonça Filho (Portuguese: [ˈklebeʁ mẽˈdõsɐ ˈfiʎu]; born 3 November 1968[1]) is a Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer, and critic.[2]

This name uses Portuguese naming customs: "Filho" is a generational suffix meaning "son", which is used for someone whose name is the same as their father, like "Jr." in English.
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Born (1968-11-03) 3 November 1968
Recife, Brazil
OccupationFilm director, screenwriter, producer, critic

Life and career

With a degree in journalism from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Kleber Mendonça Filho began his career as a film critic and journalist. He wrote for newspapers such as Jornal do Commercio and Folha de S. Paulo, for magazines such as Continente[3] and Cinética,[4] and for his own site, CinemaScópio.

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, including A Menina do Algodão (co-directed by Daniel Bandeira, 2002), Vinil Verde (2004), Eletrodoméstica (2005), Noite de Sexta Manhã de Sábado (2006), and Recife Frio (2009), as well as a feature-length documentary, Crítico (2008).

O Som ao Redor (Neighbouring Sounds, 2013) was Mendonça's first feature-length drama, winning numerous awards. Film critic AO Scott of The New York Times included it in his list of the 10 best films of 2012.[5] Caetano Veloso, in his column in the newspaper O Globo, classified it as "one of the best movies made recently in the world ".[6] The critic Lucas Salgado of AdoroCinema website, gave the film a score of 5 out of 5, writing, "The film talks in a subtle way and uses sound so rarely seen in world cinema." Lucas reported that the movie is "beautiful, fun, scary and captivating," and also said "it's not a movie that needs to shout to be heard, does not need big dramatic scenes to reach its goal or even to tell a story."[7]

In 2016, his next feature film, Aquarius premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and was later nominated for Best International Film at the 32nd Independent Spirit Awards[8] and the César Award for best foreign film,[9] but lost to Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann and to Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake, respectively.

Three years latter, his third film, Bacurau, written and directed with Juliano Dornelles, won the Jury Prize at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, shared with Les Misérables.[10]

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.

Filmography
Key
Indicates a documentary Indicates a short film
List of films directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Year Original title English release title Language(s) Notes
1997 Enjaulado Caged In Portuguese
2002 A Menina do Algodão The Little Cotton Girl Portuguese
2004 Vinil Verde Green Vinyl Portuguese
2005 Eletrodoméstica Portuguese
2007 Noite de Sexta, Manhã de Sábado Friday Night, Saturday Morning Portuguese
2008 Crítico Critico Portuguese
2009 Recife Frio Cold Tropics Portuguese
2012 O Som Ao Redor Neighboring Sounds Portuguese
2015 A Copa do Mundo no Recife Portuguese Short documentary on the inhabitants of the city Recife during the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
2016 Aquarius Aquarius Portuguese
2019 Bacurau Bacurau Portuguese Co-directed with Juliano Dornelles. Film won Jury Prize at 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
Os Filmes Já Começam na Calçada Portuguese TV documentary series. In post-production.

References
  1. "Kleber Mendonça Filho: A biografia". adorocinema.com (in Portuguese). Retrieved 11 August 2019.
  2. "Kleber Mendonça Filho". Filme B (in Portuguese). Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  3. Mendonça Filho, Kleber. "Revista Continente". Revista Continente. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  4. Mendonça Filho, Kleber. "Cinetica". Revista Cinetica. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  5. Scott, AO (14 December 2012). "25 Favorites From a Year When 10 Aren't Enough". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  6. Veloso, Caetano (27 January 2013). "Belo é o Recife". O Globo. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  7. Salgado, Lucas. "A Força do Silêncio". Adoro Cinema (in Portuguese). Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  8. Nogueira, Renata (22 November 2016). "Kleber Mendonça sobre "Aquarius" no Oscar independente: "Vamos aos poucos"" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  9. "'Aquarius' é indicado a melhor filme estrangeiro no César, o 'Oscar francês'" (in Portuguese). 25 January 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  10. Carlos Heli de Almeida (25 March 2019). "'Bacurau' ganha Prêmio do Júri e faz história em Cannes" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 14 September 2019.
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