After the highly acclaimed I’m Still Here comes another powerful film revealing Brazil’s military dictatorship - The Secret Agent. Winning four Cannes awards and earning four nominations at the Oscars, it is directed by Cannes Best Director Kleber Mendonça Filho and riveted with the performance of Cannes and Golden Globe Best Actor Wagner Moura. The film integrates politics, crime and thriller elements, marking a new chapter in Brazilian cinema.

In 1977, Brazil's political regime was corrupt, governance lay in ruins, and evil flourished. Marcelo is a university professor who dares to fight against the system, only to find himself hunted by assassins. During Carnival week, he flees to Recife, hoping to reunite with his family under a new identity. As he finds way to move forwards, the fatal threat looms even closer. Each day, the Carnival death toll rises. A human leg is found inside a great white shark; corpses lie unattended on the roadside; a maid is silenced while pleading for justice for her daughter. In the world of absurdity and madness, Marcelo unravels the dark and twisted curtains one-by-one. Can he escape and survive?