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Bacurau

17 August

Original Name: Bacurau
English Name: Bacurau
Year: 2019
Run Time: 132'
Language: Portuguese, English
Type (Colour/ Black & White): Colour
Country: Brazil, France
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles
Producer: Emilie Lesclaux, Saïd Ben Saïd, Michel Merkt
Cast: Bárbara Colen, Thomás Aquino, Silvero Pereira, Udo Kier, Sônia Braga
Screenplay: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles
Cinematographer: Pedro Sotero
Editor: Eduardo Serrano
Sound Designer: Nicolas Hallet
Music Composer: MateusAlves, Tomas Alves Souza
Costume Designer: Rita Azevedo
Production Designer: Thales Junqueira
Production Company: Cinemascópio Produções, Sbs Productions
World Sales: SBS Distribution.
World Sales Phone: +33 1 45 63 66 60
World Sales Email: contact@sbs-distribution.fr

Festivals:

  • Cannes FF 2019
  • Toronto IFF 2019
  • BFI London FF 2019
  • Kleber Mendonça Filho
  • 2012 Neighbouring Sounds
  • 2016 Aquarius
  • 2019 Bacurau (Co-dir)
  • Juliano Dornelles
  • 2019 Bacurau (Co-dir)

Director’s Biography:

KleberMendonçaFilho
KleberMendonçaFilho is a Brazilian film critic, journalist and filmmaker. After several short films and documentaries, he had his feature-film debut with Neighboring Sounds (2012). His second film, Aquarius (2016), was entered in competition in Cannes.
JulianoDornelles
JulianoDornelles, for more than 16 years, has been a production designer. His partnership with KleberMendonçaFilho began on the set of the short film Eletrodoméstica(2004). He has also directed a few short films. Bacurau, made in collaboration with KleberMendonçaFilho, is his first feature film as director.

Synopsis:

A young woman named Teresa travels home for the funeral of her grandmother, who was the matriarch of Bacurau, a village that happily embraces its misfits, mixed-heritage outsiders, whores, hippies and queers. On arrival, Teresa discovers that the dusty little town has been wiped clean off the map by the middle-class elite from the north, who are busy ingratiating themselves, selling their country and its people (quite literally, it turns out) to rich European and American interests.
The water supply has been cut off through nefarious political deals. The local mayor of the region visits to drum up support for his re-election, bearing dilapidated books and questionable medication, but is treated with contempt. Worse yet, unbeknownst to the people of Bacurau, not far away is a group of foreigners planning something extremely sinister. In its potent combination of political critique and genre mayhem, Bacurau is unique, stunning and a rousing call for solidarity.