Director

Kleber Mendonça Filho

Directing

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TMDB popularity

2.3

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Directed movies: 19Directed series: 0All crew credits: 28

TMDB ID: 1016214

IMDb ID: nm2207625

Known for: Directing

Born: November 22, 1968

Age: 57

Place of birth: Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1944 - 2025

Years active: 82

Average TMDB rating: 7.31

Wikidata: Q14940022

Also known as

Kléber Mendoca Filho • Kleber Mendonca Filho

Frequent jobs

Director (18)Director of Photography (1)Producer (4)Additional Photography (1)Associate Producer (1)Camera Operator (1)Executive Producer (1)Sound Editor (1)

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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.