He was born in Brasil in1968. He has a wide-ranging career as a critic and programmer. He headed the film department at the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation for 18 years and is the artistic director of Janela Internacional de Cinema in Recife. As a filmmaker, he transitioned from video in the 1990s to digital and 35mm in the 2000s. His films have received over 120 awards in Brazil and abroad. His first feature-length film was the documentary Crítico (2008), produced over nine years. Neighboring Sounds (2012) was his first feature-length fiction film, screened at over 100 international festivals. The film was Brazil’s entry for the 2014 Oscars and was considered “One of the 10 Best Films of the Year” by The New York Times. Aquarius (2016), his second feature, had an even more prestigious career, premiering in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and distributed in over 100 countries. His feature Bacurau, co-directed by Juliano Dornelles, won the Jury Prize at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. His most recent film, The Secret Agent, won the Best Director and Best Actor awards at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Special Guests 2025 Charlie Kaufman Oliver Laxe Robin Campillo Lucrecia Martel Juliette Binoche Special Guests in Other Editions Francis Ford Coppola Ira Sachs Liv Tyler Alexander Payne James Ivory Ava DuVernay Leos Carax Kathleen Kennedy Jodie Foster James Ivory Luis Mandoki Jerry Schatzberg Maribel Verdú Laurent Cantet Frank Marshall Claire Denis Barry Jenkins Ciro Guerra en Rosalie Varda J. M. Coetzee Luc Dardenne Robert Redford Alfonso Cuarón Damien Chazelle Paul Weitz Patrice Leconte Julie Bertuccelli Carol Littleton John Bailey Olivier Assayas Lynne Ramsay Al Gore Michel Hazanavicius Bob Rafelson Fred Kelemen Aaron Eckhart Casey Affleck Giada Colagrande Audrey Tautou Isabelle Huppert Tim Roth Rodrigo García Peter Greenaway Pawel Pawlikowski Pierre Rissient Amos Gitai Juliette Binoche Edward James Olmos Robert Rodriguez John Sayles Alejandro Jodorowsky Danny Trejo Bruno Dumont Quentin Tarantino Pablo Larraín José María Prado Whit Stillman Dieter Kosslick Geraldine Chaplin Seifollah Samadian Gregory Nava Sally Potter Abbas Kiarostami Damián Alcázar Demián Bichir Elena Anaya Thierry Frémaux Marisa Paredes Michel Gondry Volker Schlöndorff Luis Valdez Béla Tarr Lucrecia Martel Javier Bardem Edgar Ramírez Fernando Trueba Doris Dörrie Serge Bromberg Terry Gilliam Julio Alemán Kelly Reichardt Jennifer Lawrence Steven Soderbergh Michael Nyman Nicolas Philibert Todd Haynes Stephen Frears Héctor Babenco Gael García Bernal Carlos Reygadas Alejandro González Iñárritu Cristian Mungiu Bertrand Tavernier Arthur Penn Jean-Claude Carrière Guillermo del Toro Mike Hodges Diego Luna Tommy Lee Jones Valeria Sarmiento Raúl Ruiz Gus Van Sant Manoel De Oliveira Fernando Vallejo Julia Ormond Salma Hayek Werner Herzog Barbet Schroeder Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck
He was born in Brasil in1968. He has a wide-ranging career as a critic and programmer. He headed the film department at the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation for 18 years and is the artistic director of Janela Internacional de Cinema in Recife. As a filmmaker, he transitioned from video in the 1990s to digital and 35mm in the 2000s. His films have received over 120 awards in Brazil and abroad. His first feature-length film was the documentary Crítico (2008), produced over nine years. Neighboring Sounds (2012) was his first feature-length fiction film, screened at over 100 international festivals. The film was Brazil’s entry for the 2014 Oscars and was considered “One of the 10 Best Films of the Year” by The New York Times. Aquarius (2016), his second feature, had an even more prestigious career, premiering in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and distributed in over 100 countries. His feature Bacurau, co-directed by Juliano Dornelles, won the Jury Prize at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. His most recent film, The Secret Agent, won the Best Director and Best Actor awards at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
