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Pictures of Ghosts (2023)

Name: Pictures of Ghosts
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Genre: documentary film
Rating: 7.6

Pictures of Ghosts is a 2023 Brazilian documentary film essay written and directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho. The film revisits Kleber's hometown, the Brazilian city of Recife, through the historical prism of the cinemas he once frequented, based on his own personal archival footage, remembering what used to be idyllic places, now closed, that constituted an important time-marker in the evolution of Brazilian society.

Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho · Shot by Pedro Sotero

Behind the scenes

PICTURES OF GHOSTS Q+A | AFI FEST 2023 — American Film Institute · 20 min
Pictures of Ghosts Director Kleber Mendonça Filho on Cinephilia and Moviegoing | NYFF61 — Film at Lincoln Center · 5 min
Kleber Mendonça Filho on Pictures of Ghosts | NYFF61 — Film at Lincoln Center · 26 min

Elsewhere

More by Kleber Mendonça Filho

Green Vinyl — 2004
Cold Tropics — 2009
Neighbouring Sounds — 2012
Aquarius — 2015
Bacurau — 2019
The Secret Agent — 2025

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