Brazilian filmmaker Gabriel Mascaro arrived in Goa this week for the 56th International Film Festival of India, where his latest feature The Blue Trail was screened as the opener, after a year-long ...

I can’t remember the man’s name, or the year we met, but I remember the conversation we had. It was the early 2010s, at a customer seminar I conducted for my former employer, back when I worked in ...

You can almost smell the sweat in “The Secret Agent,” a stylish, slow burn thriller about radicals and mercenaries in 1977 Brazil. Filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho begins his film with the note that it ...

The past is never the past is never the past — especially if you lived in Brazil in 1977, “a period of great mischief.” That’s the scene-setting intertitle that opens The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça ...

The Secret Agent, written and directed be Kleber Mendonca Filho and starring Wagner Moura, is Brazil's 2026 Oscar entry.