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Kleber Mendonça Filho

Kleber Mendonça Filho

ActivitiesDirector, Screenwriter, Foreign Producer, Participant

SecteurCinema

Kleber Mendonça Filho

Filmography(5)

The Secret Agent

(2025)

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Heartless

(2023)

Room 999

(2023)

Bacurau

(2018)

Aquarius

(2016)

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Videos

04 JUNE 2025

Cannes 2025: Kleber Mendonça Filho on The Secret Agent

Cannes 2025
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🎬 “It was the first time I wrote a role for an actor.”Kleber Mendonça Filho spoke to us in Cannes about The Secret Agent, a tense political thriller set in 1970s Recife and written specifically for Wagner Moura.

Amid the chaos of carnival, a man with a hidden past returns to find his son — but Recife holds more than just memories.

The film was awarded:🏆 Best Director – Kleber Mendonça Filho🏆 Best Actor – Wagner Moura🏆 FIPRESCI Prize

#watchfrench #Cannes2025 #TheSecretAgent #OAgenteSecreto #KleberMendonçaFilho #WagnerMoura

News & awards

News (15)

French films awarded at the 78th Cannes Film Festival

French films awarded at the 78th Cannes Film Festival

26 MAY 2025

All the French films at the 78th Cannes Film Festival

All the French films at the 78th Cannes Film Festival

12 MAY 2025

Festivals & events

Awards (2)

Cannes International Film Festival
France, 2025
Best Direction Award : The Secret Agent
Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia
Spain, 2019
Offical section - Best feature lengthfilm : Bacurau

Delegations (2)

International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)
The Netherlands, 2020
Director : Bacurau
Zurich Film Festival
Switzerland, 2016
Director : Aquarius

Homepage Unifrance

MyFrenchShorts : 'Olla' by Ariane Labed (2019)

Chill(s): Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel on their short film The Exploded Girl

10 to Watch - Adam Bessa on 'Ghost Trail'

Docufy: Raoul Peck on 'Ernest Cole, Lost and Found'

Duets: Irène Drésel and Éric Gravel on Full Time (‘À plein temps’)

The Showrunner Series : Fanny Herrero on Call My Agent!

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