The Brazillian filmmaker will present a case study on his most recent work, Bacurau, its influences, objectives, and how it relates to the cultural here-and-now of ocidental politics.

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Kleber Mendonça Filho is a Brazilian director, producer, screenwriter, and film critic.

He began his way into the cinematic world with short films and with them Kleber managed to start his collection of career awards. 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 (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).

The documentary Crítico (2008) was Kleber's first feature film, but it was only in 2012, with the award-winning film O Som ao Redor, that the filmmaker began to gain notoriety on an international scale. Aquarius (2016) received the Best Film award at World Cinema Amsterdam, a film festival in the Netherlands.