Kleber Mendonça Filho is in the thick of the awards season trail as he campaigns with his Brazilian Oscar entry The Secret Agent , but he is already thinking about his next film.

The Brazilian director told Deadline on the red carpet at the opening night of Marrakech that it will be a drama set in his home city of Recife in the 1930s.

“The next film, if it turns out to be a good script…should take place in the 1930s in Recife, the city where all my films have taken place,” he said.

He said it was too early to give details but went on to reveal that the storyline will tap into events that took place in the port city in Northeast Brazil on the Atlantic Coast in the lead up to World War Two.

“It always been a big port city, so a lot of crazy things happen in the 30s, just before th

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