Since 2004, director Kleber Mendonça Filho and producer Emilie Lesclaux have been using crime, thriller, western, and spy film genres to confront Brazil’s past under the military dictatorship, advocate for a future that protects the country’s natural resources and marginalized areas, and wrestle with a present in which corporate interests and political corruption haunt people’s everyday lives. Their films, including Aquarius (2016), Bacurau (2019), and The Secret Agent (2025), have won the Golden Globe, multiple prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, and been nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture.

At the same time, they have protested against the erosion of democracy in Brazil, from the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff to the far-right government of Jair Bolsonaro.

Sponsored by the Film Department, the Political Science Department, and the Media Studies Program.

This event is free and open to the public.