Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
November 22, 1968 (57 years old)
Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Also Known As
- Kléber Mendoca Filho
- Kleber Mendonca Filho
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Biography
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.
Known For
Acting
Directing
The Secret Agent
Director, Producer, Writer
2025
Heartless
Producer
2024
Pictures of Ghosts
Additional Photography, Sound Designer, Writer, Director
2023
Bacurau no Mapa
Director
2019
Bacurau
Director, Writer
2019
Aquarius
Director, Screenplay
2016
Neighboring Sounds
Screenplay, Sound Designer, Editor, Director
2012
Cold Tropics
Editor, Director of Photography, Writer, Director
2009
Critic
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor, Finishing Producer, Animation, Camera Operator, Sound
2008
Eletrodoméstica
Director, Screenplay, Editor, Sound Editor
2005
Green Vinyl
Director, Sound Designer, Still Photographer, Writer, Executive Producer, Sound Editor, Director of Photography, Editor
2004