Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles
Script: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles
Photography: Pedro Sotero
Editor: Eduardo Serrano
Music: Mateus Alves and Tomaz Alves Souza
Cast: Bárbara Colen, Thomás Aquino, Silvero Pereira, Karine Teles, Sonia Braga, Udo Kier
Production: Cinemascópio Produções – SBS Productions
Distribution: SBS Distribution
Country: Brazil
Year: 2019
Length: 131’
Awards: Cannes Film Festival 2019 – Jury Prize
A few years from now… Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.
Kleber Mendonça Filho was Born in 1968 in Recife, northeastern Brazil. After graduating college, Kleber worked as a journalist on Jornal do Commercio, while also writing for Folha de S. Paulo and other publications. In the 1990s, he made several documentaries and experimental shorts, produced through his own company, CinemaScópio. In 2012, Kleber made his debut feature, Neighboring sounds, in Recife. In 2016, Aquarius his second feature film is selected in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. It wins Best Foreign Film from the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics and is nominated in the Best Foreign Film category at the Cesar.
Juliano Dornelles was born in 1980 in Recife, Juliano Dornelles is a founding member of the creation group Símio Filmes . Working as a Production Designer since more than 16 years, his partnership with Kleber Mendonça Filho started on the set of the short film Eletrodoméstica (2004). He was also the Production Designer of Neighboring sounds and Aquarius. As a director and writer he directed short films and video clips. His first feature film Ateliê da rua do brum is currently in post production.