🏆 Premiered in the Main Competition at the 78th Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim
🏆 Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language Film and Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
🏆 Nominated for four Academy Awards at the 98th Academy Awards
In 1977, Brazil's political regime was corrupt, governance lay in ruins, and evil flourished. Marcelo is a university professor who dares to fight against the system, only to find himself hunted by assassins. During Carnival week, he flees to Recife, hoping to reunite with his family under a new identity. As he finds way to move forwards, the fatal threat looms even closer. Each day, the Carnival death toll rises. A human leg is found inside a great white shark; corpses lie unattended on the roadside; a maid is silenced while pleading for justice for her daughter. In the world of absurdity and madness, Marcelo unravels the dark and twisted curtains one-by-one. Can he escape and survive?
After the highly acclaimed I’m Still Here comes another powerful film revealing Brazil’s military dictatorship - The Secret Agent. Winning four Cannes awards and earning four nominations at the Oscars, it is directed by Cannes Best Director Kleber Mendonça Filho and riveted with the performance of Cannes and Golden Globe Best Actor Wagner Moura. The film integrates politics, crime and thriller elements, marking a new chapter in Brazilian cinema.
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Cast: Wagner Moura, Carlos Francisco, Tânia Maria
 | About the Director Kleber de Mendonça Vasconcellos Filho, realizador, argumentista, produtor e crítico de cinema brasileiro. In 2012, his narrative feature debut Neighboring Sounds (2012) was included by The New York Times in its best-of-the-year list. His following films, Aquarius (2016) and Bacurau (2019), were nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, while the latter won the Jury Prize in Cannes. For The Secret Agent (2025), Mendonça Filho won Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival, and Best Non-English Language Film | |