Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Aero Theatre, Santa Monica
### **ABOUT THE FILMS:** **THE SECRET AGENT, 2025, Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho, 158 Mins, NEON, Brazil/France/Germany/Netherlands** *In Portuguese with English subtitles.* THE SECRET AGENT is a 2025 Brazilian historical political thriller film written and directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho. It stars Wagner Moura as Marcelo, a teacher caught in the political turmoil of the final years of the Brazilian military dictatorship, attempting to flee persecution. FORMAT: DCP **BACURAU, 2019, Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, 131 Mins, Kino Lorber, Brazil** *In Portuguese with English subtitles.* A few years from now… Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants (among them Sônia Braga) notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed mercenaries led by Udo Kier arrive in town picking off the inhabitants one by one. A fierce confrontation takes place when the townspeople turn the tables on the villainous outsiders, banding together by any means necessary to protect and maintain their remote community. The mercenaries just may have met their match in the fed-up, resourceful denizens of little Bacurau. FORMAT: DCP