Date: Monday, March 2, 2026
Time: 7:00pm ET
Venue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYC
TRT: 93 minutes
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Producer: Emilie Lesclaux
From the acclaimed director of the Oscar-nominated THE SECRET AGENT, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s PICTURES OF GHOSTS—the inspiration for his 1970s-set Wagner Moura thriller—is a richly textured journey through time, architecture, cinema, and his native city of Recife, Brazil. Moving through the city’s grand movie theaters, once vital spaces of collective imagination and social life, the film traces a century of dreams, ruptures, and transformations. Blending archival material, film excerpts, moments of mystery, and personal memory, PICTURES OF GHOSTS unfolds as both an intimate portrait of a city and a meditation on how cinema shapes places, history, and the way we remember.
The screening will be followed by an onstage Q&A with director Kleber Mendonça Filho and producer Emilie Lesclaux.