DIRECTORS/SCREENPLAY: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles  
PRODUCERS: Emilie Lesclaux, Said Ben Said, Michel Merkt  
PRODUCTION CO: Cinemascópio Produçôes, SBS Productions
PHOTOGRAPHY: Pedro Sotero
EDITOR: Eduardo Serrano
MUSIC: Mateus Alves, Tomaz Alves Souza
WITH: Bárbara Colen (Teresa), Thomás Aquino (Pacote/Acácio), Silvero Pereira (Lunga), Sonia Braga (Domingas), Udo Kier (Michael)

AWARDS: Jury Prize, Cannes 2019

REVIEWS

“A vibrant, richly diverse backcountry Brazilian town finds its sun-dappled day-to-day disturbed when its inhabitants become the targets of a group of armed mercenaries. The perpetrators of this class warfare, however, may have met their match in the fed-up, resourceful denizens of little Bacurau. Those who remember Kleber Mendonça Filho’s wonderful crowd-pleaser Aquarius starring Sônia Braga – who appears here in a memorable supporting role – might be surprised by the new terrain and occasional ultraviolence of his latest, codirected with his long-time production designer Juliano Dornelles. Yet this wild shape-shifter shares with that film the exhilaration of witnessing society’s forgotten and marginalized standing up for themselves by any means necessary. With references to the fearless genre works of John Carpenter, George Miller, and Sergio Leone, Bacurau, winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, is a vividly angry power-to-the-people fable like no other.”

– Film at Lincoln Center

“The light touches of science fiction evoke present-day depravities, and the vision of local unity offers a thrillingly imaginative playbook for resistance.”

​— Richard Brody, New Yorker

FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Auckland   
Monday, 12 April, 6:15pm

​Dunedin   
Wednesday, 21 April, 7:30pm

​Whanganui   
Monday, 10 May, 7.00pm

Canterbury     
Monday, 14 June, 7.00pm

Palmerston North 
Wednesday, 7 July,, 6.00pm 

Wellington     
Monday 26 July, 6.15pm
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