Agente Secreto will have six preview sessions in Porto Alegre on October 25th

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Wagner Moura in a scene from “The Secret Agent” (2025), a film written and directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho.

Selected by Brazil to compete for a spot at the 2026 Oscar for best international film, The Secret Agent (2025) will have at least six preview sessions in Porto Alegre next Saturday, October 25th. No GNC Iguatemino GNC Mills and no GNC Praia de Belasthe screenings will be at 6:40 pm. In Paulo Amorim Room at Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana, at 6:45 pm. The time at CineBancários (Rua General Câmara, 424, in the Historic Center) is 7pm. And in Cinesystem do Bourbon Country, 20h.

O political thriller by the Pernambuco director Kleber Mendonça Filho goes on display on November 6th. Before, in November 3there will be two sessions with free entry and with the presence of the filmmaker at the Mostra de Longas do 13th Porto Alegre Audiovisual Script Festival, Frapa.

The Secret Agent is starred by Wagner Moura, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Gabriel LeoneAlice Carvalho, Carlos Francisco, Hermila Guedes e Kier’s thigh. Com two hours and 40 minutes longis a thriller set in the 1970s, during the military dictatorship. Wagner Moura plays Marcelo, a technology expert who comes to Recife, in 1977“running away from the past and looking for some peace. But he soon becomes an agent of chaos in the city.”

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Actor Wagner Moura and director Kleber Mendonça Filho on the set of “The Secret Agent”.

No Cannes Film Festivalin May, the sixth feature film by the filmmaker Aquarius (2016) e Bacurau (2019, with Juliano Dornelles) won three important awards: best direction, best actor (Wagner Moura) e best film by Fiprescithe international federation of film critics.

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Nos USA, The Secret Agent has been appearing very well in the specialized press’s bets for the 2026 Oscars. There is a consensus that it will be on the list of five nominees for the best international film award awarded by the Hollywood Academy.

The critic Clayton Davisno site yes Varietyput the title among the 10 likely candidates for the Oscar for best film. Wagner Moura is taken for granted among the competitors for best actor, and Kleber Mendonça Filho should compete for at least the golden statuette for original script.

The journalist Scott Feinbergno Hollywood Reporteralso cited The Secret Agent as one of the 10 Oscar nominees for best film. For him, Kleber must compete for the directing and original script trophies. Wagner Moura wins the best actor category, and Tania Maria76 years old from Rio Grande do Norte, may appear among the supporting actresses.

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