Actor · Director · Screenwriter · 1968

Kleber Mendonça Filho

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Room 999

Lubna Playoust · 2023

Room 999 (2023) is a French documentary directed by Lubna Playoust, filmed in a single hotel room with thirteen international filmmakers — including Cronenberg, Wenders, Farhadi and Ramsay — speaking freely over one day. Shot by Marine Atlan and scored by Pierre Rousseau, it offers no narration, no subtitles for overlapping dialogue, no biographical context. Its rigour lies in restraint: fixed framing, natural light, unedited duration. It captures conversation not as argument but as collective thinking-in-motion — hesitant, contradictory, embodied. A film about presence, not position.

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The Secret Agent

Kleber Mendonça Filho · 2025

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent is a Portuguese-language historical political thriller set in Recife during Brazil’s military dictatorship. Starring Wagner Moura as Armando, a former professor evading persecution, it traces his movements through carnival crowds, bureaucratic offices and dissident networks—all while a severed leg found in a shark becomes a media smokescreen for state violence. Shot on location with 1970s-inspired cinematography and edited for procedural realism, the film prioritises texture over exposition, embedding its politics in infrastructure, sound and silence.