Screening

About Neighboring Sounds

Year Released:

2012

Genres:

Drama

Metadata:

Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho

A history of violence and oppression threatens to engulf the residents of an affluent seaside community in Neighboring Sounds, a thrilling debut from filmmaker Kleber Mendonca Filho. A palpable sense of unease hangs over a single city block in the coastal town of Recife, Brazil. Home to prosperous families and the servants who work for them, the area is ruled by an aging patriarch and his sons. When a private security firm is reluctantly brought in to protect the residents from a recent spate of petty crime, it unleashes the fears, anxieties and resentments of a divided society still haunted by its troubled past. Portuguese language with English subtitles.
(35mm. 131 min. Not rated.)

Director Kleber Mendonça Filho is scheduled to be present on September 18 for introduction and Q&A.

Kleber Mendonça Filho
Kleber Mendonça Filho was born in Recife, northeastern Brazil. He studied journalism and has worked extensively as a film critic as well as a film programmer in Recife’s top alternative cinema, Cinema da Fundação Joaquim Nabuco. In the 1990s, he made documentaries, experimental films and fiction as a videomaker. Over the last decade, his short films have won awards in Brazil and abroad. Neighboring Sounds (O som ao redor) is his first fiction feature.

Special thanks to Chris Stults from the Wexner Center for the Arts.