Welket Bungué

Acting

Welket Bungué

Born

1988-02-07 (38)

Place of birth

Xitole, Guinea-Bissau

Known for

Acting

Credits

80 titles

Welket Bungué (Guiné-Bissau, 7 February 1988) is a Portuguese-Guinean actor and director.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 14 titles

Crimes of the Future poster
6.0

With his partner Caprice, celebrity performance artist Saul Tenser publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. An investigator from the National Organ Registry obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed... Their mission — to use Tenser's notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.

Crimes of the Future

2022

Berlin Alexanderplatz poster
6.9

In 2015, thirty year old refugee Francis, the sole survivor of a boat that illegally crossed the Mediterranean, is drawn into Berlin's seedy underbelly.

Berlin Alexanderplatz

2020

Pedro, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea poster
6.0

The story of Brazil’s first emperor, returning to Europe on board the English ship Warspite. The trip makes Pedro conquer his fears and face his life from a personal point of view. He goes back in time and relives outstanding moments of his earlier life – since his childhood, when in 1808 he arrived coming from Portugal with his family, until he left in the dead of the night, in 1831, running away from Brazil.

Pedro, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

2022

Upheaval poster
NR

It's essential to generate life, dialogue, understanding, and to celebrate humanity. In times of widespread pandemic, raising questions about the preservation of democracy, the integrity of public health, and our own notions of individuality, we are dragged into a process of change. Mudança is an encounter between the artist Welket Bungué and the Portuguese parliamentary politician Joacine Katar Moreira. Here they question the essence of their crafts, making an unexpected paradigm of imminent revolution resound.

Upheaval

2021

Fuga poster
NR

So, here we are in time, here in the singularity, where two bodies inhabit an in-between space marked by the dilation of time. Inspired by radical Black thought, FUGA is an experiment on the erratic movement of escape and its impossibility.

Fuga

2025

Mistida poster
NR

An immigrant mother, hurting from a backache, calls for her son to help carry her groceries home. Along their way, they talk about the future through the past, returning to all of their disagreements, disillusionments, rancor and resentments.

Mistida

2022

The Night's Substance poster
5.5

Jaiane now lives in Brazil, while Aissa, a Mozambican sailor who has just arrived in the city, tries to have a real experience on dry land. A story of unconventional passion follows.

The Night's Substance

2021

Dialogues After the End poster
4.0

Pavese considered Dialogues with Leucò his best work. Eloquent and at the same time sententious and fragile, but implausible among humanized gods, demigods, heroes, and other pagan figures of Greek mythology, who question, through the imaginary of myths, the society of contemporary man. Out of a time and a certain space, and thus, and like all myths, always current.

Dialogues After the End

2023

Aller/Retour poster
5.2

A female truck driver is on her way to Spain when she encounters a refugee hiding in her truck, trying to go to England in order to earn money for his family. Aller/Retour is above all a road story about friendship, difficulties in life and the sacrifices we make for our families.

Aller/Retour

2023

New Eden poster
NR

Damião, a young black priest, settles in a village of European immigrants, tobacco farmers in southern Brazil. Received with disdain, Damião discovers that sinister forces have taken root in the town.

New Eden

2026

Akin's Desert poster
7.0

Akin is a dedicated Cuban doctor working in Brazil for the Mais Medicos/More Doctors programme in 2018. From his daily routine in an indigenous community to his intimate moments with Érica and Sérgio, his relationship with Brazil gets deeper and stronger. With the election of Jair Bolsonaro, the cooperation between the two countries ends abruptly. He must make a decision: return to Cuba and abandon the relationships he has been cultivating or stay and reinvent himself without being able to practice medicine.

Akin's Desert

2025

Calling Cabral poster
NR

Shaped by mysticism, resistance, and the voice of revolutionary leader Amílcar Cabral, we take a personal and poetic journey through the anti-colonial past and present of Guinea-Bissau.

Calling Cabral

2022

Angular Phoenix poster
NR

Proposes a speculative meeting between the Baron of Água Izé, the first nobleman in the Portuguese colonies of the 1800s who was of mixed European and African ancestry, and Maria Correia, the Black Princess of Príncipe Island in the 1700s. Reanimating them through the bodies of contemporary artists, the film uses dance, poetry and music to weave profound threads between the past and the present. Transcending space, time and language, their encounter wrestles with questions of culpability, power and the exploitation of both land and Black bodies.

Angular Phoenix

2024

Why Do You Hate Your Brother? poster
NR

Clara and Vítor are two brothers with a troubled relationship, marked by disagreement about the direction to take in relation to the family relic. The relationship will be more shaken by the sudden appearance of an unexpected visitor called Luís.

Why Do You Hate Your Brother?

2020

2010s · 23 titles

A Ilha dos Cães poster
5.0

Two Angola, the colonial and the contemporary, spaced 60 years, share the curse of a mysterious island. In the past, the epicenter of the tragedy is an evil fortress, tomb of revolutionaries deported from the mainland. In the present, the building of a luxurious resort awakens the relentless jaw of justice. Soon after, workmen lacerated dead bodies, begin to appear. The horror spreads rapidly. Pedro Mbala is sent to the island to solve the problem. His target is a pack of stray dogs.

A Ilha dos Cães

2017

Quarta Divisão poster
5.6

The film tells the story of Martin, a child of nine years, who one day disappears from private school where he studied. Police mounted a major search operation across the city to find him. All hypotheses are possible: What happened?

Quarta Divisão

2013

Letters from War poster
6.9

In 1971, António Lobo Antunes' life is brutally interrupted when he is drafted into the Portuguese Army to serve as a doctor in one of the worst zones of the Colonial War – the East of Angola. Away from everything dear he writes letters to his wife while he is immersed in an increasingly violent setting. While he moves between several military posts he falls in love for Africa and matures politically. At his side, an entire generation struggles and despairs for the return home. In the uncertainty of war events, only the letters can make him survive.

Letters from War

2016

Joaquim poster
7.0

Brazil, 18th century. The colony of Portugal endures a decline in gold production. A Portuguese minority rules over a corrupt and autocratic society. Joaquim is an efficient soldier, famous for capturing gold smugglers. While waiting for his promotion to Lieutenant, he leaves for a risky mission in search of new gold mines - the only way to buy the freedom of Blackie, a slave he is in love with. Inspired by the true story of Tiradentes, the first leader of the Brazilian revolutionary movement.

Joaquim

2017

O Leão da Estrela poster
6.1

The story revolves around Anastácio, a supporter of Leões de Alcochete and Mr. Barata, a supporter of Inferno Futebol Clube. One day, the two teams face each other. Which team will win?

O Leão da Estrela

2015

Body Electric poster
6.0

Elias is a handsome young deputy manager in a garment factory in São Paulo. When he’s not working, he enjoys casual encounters in the big city. The arrival of a young African, Fernando, on the production line piques his interest and Elias finds himself increasingly drawn into socialising with his work colleagues.

Body Electric

2017

Isa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Isa

2014

O Sol Nasce Sempre do Mesmo Lado poster
NR

Three teenagers, a young couple and a middle-aged man meet on a night that will dramatically mark their lives.

O Sol Nasce Sempre do Mesmo Lado

2013

Sisyfos' Dance poster
NR

Short film by André Lourenço and Paulo Valente.

Sisyfos' Dance

2011

Blow, Howl and Whistle poster
NR

Juan (Arthus Focchi) and Djari (Welket Bungué) are foreigners who met in Rio de Janeiro and became best friends. Juan has a bad feeling, something is wrong, the wind whispers. In a conversation with Djari, Juan warns him that he will leave. Something sudden happens before he travels. Djari will have to deal with this.

Blow, Howl and Whistle

2015

Bastien poster
NR

The story of a 24 year-old, who grew up in an institution for six years and returned home of their host family. He lives with his younger brother Zezito and his adoptive grandmother, Dona Angustina.

Bastien

2016

Arriaga poster
NR

On the shores of Lisbon, Arriaga, a 25 years old boy from a middle-class family of emigrants walks alone through the silent and wrinkled streets by vices of the nightlife. Arriaga deals with his self-destructive alter ego to be accepted among the youth of his neighborhood. Everything happens in one place, everything revolves around a single moment, what is suspicious only the unexpected can unfold.

Arriaga

2019

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Run if You Can, Dance if You Dare

2019

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

É Bom Te Conhecer

2019

Yellow Country poster
1.0

In a remote and inhospitable place with its own rules, we follow the journey of a group of women forced into slavery.

Yellow Country

2018

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Message

2017

Tejo Mar poster
NR

João, a Portuguese performing arts student, is finishing his schooling season in Rio de Janeiro. It’s his last week this side of the ocean and he rediscovers the city he’s been living in for the previous 10 months.

Tejo Mar

2014

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Aginal

2018

Bicho poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bicho

2014

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Alma

2013

Buôn poster
NR

BUÔN is an exposition of thought, desire to travel and see a world beyond the walls of a city terminating the social , mental, physical, psychological , political and individually on their projects , nooks and architectures.

Buôn

2015

No artwork available
NR

The short film began from an adaptation of the comic book "The Last Man" from the collection Y. It takes place in a near future, in the world where human clones and human fight for power domination. Dr. Teresa is about to give birth a child. She is accompanied by her assistant. Both look for Dr. Pedro for assistance. He refuses at first.

Mutter

2011

Jah Intervention poster
NR

Considering the research of the Brazilian Forum of Public Security (2017), Black people in Brazil are still more than half of the population of the country. Between 2005 and 2015 the number of black people murdered increased by 18% and this also made us the majority of homicide victims, accounting for 71% of all registered bodies. 'Jah Intervention' is a symbolic walk to exhaustion. The intervention proposes the preliminary warm-up that precedes a fight of titans in a boxing ring. The intervention consists of the movement of the performer sensing the sudden fall when affected by perforations by bullets of semi-automatic weapons.

Jah Intervention

2019

Series credits

Behind the camera

Upheaval poster
NR

It's essential to generate life, dialogue, understanding, and to celebrate humanity. In times of widespread pandemic, raising questions about the preservation of democracy, the integrity of public health, and our own notions of individuality, we are dragged into a process of change. Mudança is an encounter between the artist Welket Bungué and the Portuguese parliamentary politician Joacine Katar Moreira. Here they question the essence of their crafts, making an unexpected paradigm of imminent revolution resound.

Upheaval

2021

Upheaval poster
NR

It's essential to generate life, dialogue, understanding, and to celebrate humanity. In times of widespread pandemic, raising questions about the preservation of democracy, the integrity of public health, and our own notions of individuality, we are dragged into a process of change. Mudança is an encounter between the artist Welket Bungué and the Portuguese parliamentary politician Joacine Katar Moreira. Here they question the essence of their crafts, making an unexpected paradigm of imminent revolution resound.

Upheaval

2021

Upheaval poster
NR

It's essential to generate life, dialogue, understanding, and to celebrate humanity. In times of widespread pandemic, raising questions about the preservation of democracy, the integrity of public health, and our own notions of individuality, we are dragged into a process of change. Mudança is an encounter between the artist Welket Bungué and the Portuguese parliamentary politician Joacine Katar Moreira. Here they question the essence of their crafts, making an unexpected paradigm of imminent revolution resound.

Upheaval

2021

Prima + Lebsi poster
NR

Prima and Lebsi are two young Afro-descendant women who grew up on the outskirts of Lisbon, daughters of immigrants who occasionally meet at a house party, on Cousin's birthday. Lebsi dates Rave, a young street dancer who makes a living dancing in the streets of central Lisbon, and they have a daughter in common. Prima is an orphan of both her father and mother and learned to let go of herself very early on. She lives alone with a cat and found selling cannabis as her alternative to generating money and paying the bills. Still, she is also a respected beat producer in the neighborhood. Both want to improve their lives, they dream of getting out of the “zone” but in the meantime they are living as best they can, asserting themselves in their way.

Prima + Lebsi

2024

Prima + Lebsi poster
NR

Prima and Lebsi are two young Afro-descendant women who grew up on the outskirts of Lisbon, daughters of immigrants who occasionally meet at a house party, on Cousin's birthday. Lebsi dates Rave, a young street dancer who makes a living dancing in the streets of central Lisbon, and they have a daughter in common. Prima is an orphan of both her father and mother and learned to let go of herself very early on. She lives alone with a cat and found selling cannabis as her alternative to generating money and paying the bills. Still, she is also a respected beat producer in the neighborhood. Both want to improve their lives, they dream of getting out of the “zone” but in the meantime they are living as best they can, asserting themselves in their way.

Prima + Lebsi

2024

Calling Cabral poster
NR

Shaped by mysticism, resistance, and the voice of revolutionary leader Amílcar Cabral, we take a personal and poetic journey through the anti-colonial past and present of Guinea-Bissau.

Calling Cabral

2022

I Am Not Pilatus poster
NR

'I Am Not Pilatus' is a poetic and artistic manifesto by Welket Bungué. This film reviews the case of police brutality that occurred in Bairro da Jamaica (South Bank, Lisbon) in January 2019. That case shocked the Portuguese and the African diaspora. The film connects the case to the mobilization achieved in the march held at Avenida da Liberdade (Lisbon), an initiative of young black African descendants complaining about justice and more egalitarian rights regarding police treatment of the black population living in Portugal.

I Am Not Pilatus

2019

Angular Phoenix poster
NR

Proposes a speculative meeting between the Baron of Água Izé, the first nobleman in the Portuguese colonies of the 1800s who was of mixed European and African ancestry, and Maria Correia, the Black Princess of Príncipe Island in the 1700s. Reanimating them through the bodies of contemporary artists, the film uses dance, poetry and music to weave profound threads between the past and the present. Transcending space, time and language, their encounter wrestles with questions of culpability, power and the exploitation of both land and Black bodies.

Angular Phoenix

2024

Angular Phoenix poster
NR

Proposes a speculative meeting between the Baron of Água Izé, the first nobleman in the Portuguese colonies of the 1800s who was of mixed European and African ancestry, and Maria Correia, the Black Princess of Príncipe Island in the 1700s. Reanimating them through the bodies of contemporary artists, the film uses dance, poetry and music to weave profound threads between the past and the present. Transcending space, time and language, their encounter wrestles with questions of culpability, power and the exploitation of both land and Black bodies.

Angular Phoenix

2024

Bastien poster
NR

The story of a 24 year-old, who grew up in an institution for six years and returned home of their host family. He lives with his younger brother Zezito and his adoptive grandmother, Dona Angustina.

Bastien

2016

Bastien poster
NR

The story of a 24 year-old, who grew up in an institution for six years and returned home of their host family. He lives with his younger brother Zezito and his adoptive grandmother, Dona Angustina.

Bastien

2016

Peripheral Workout poster
NR

Two artists go out to train, they don't fit the standards of their neighborhood, their city, or their imposing culture.

Peripheral Workout

2020

Peripheral Workout poster
NR

Two artists go out to train, they don't fit the standards of their neighborhood, their city, or their imposing culture.

Peripheral Workout

2020

Arriaga poster
NR

On the shores of Lisbon, Arriaga, a 25 years old boy from a middle-class family of emigrants walks alone through the silent and wrinkled streets by vices of the nightlife. Arriaga deals with his self-destructive alter ego to be accepted among the youth of his neighborhood. Everything happens in one place, everything revolves around a single moment, what is suspicious only the unexpected can unfold.

Arriaga

2019

Arriaga poster
NR

On the shores of Lisbon, Arriaga, a 25 years old boy from a middle-class family of emigrants walks alone through the silent and wrinkled streets by vices of the nightlife. Arriaga deals with his self-destructive alter ego to be accepted among the youth of his neighborhood. Everything happens in one place, everything revolves around a single moment, what is suspicious only the unexpected can unfold.

Arriaga

2019

Contemplation Deadlock Attempt poster
NR

A filmmaker follows the odyssey of an invisible missionary as he wanders between villages in Guinea-Bissau, trying to respond to the call by Amílcar Cabral, who wishes to hear the voice emanating from the heart of his people, and witnessing the country’s chaotic operational impasse, which is ultimately overcome by the people’s determination to succeed through hard work.

Contemplation Deadlock Attempt

2025

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ex Explorador Expropriador

2020

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ex Explorador Expropriador

2020

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Run if You Can, Dance if You Dare

2019

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Run if You Can, Dance if You Dare

2019

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Run if You Can, Dance if You Dare

2019

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

É Bom Te Conhecer

2019

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

É Bom Te Conhecer

2019

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

É Bom Te Conhecer

2019

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Message

2017

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Message

2017

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

cacheu Cuntum

2020

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Aginal

2018

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Aginal

2018

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kau Berdi

2019

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kau Berdi

2019

Bustagate poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bustagate

2020

Bustagate poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bustagate

2020

Buôn poster
NR

BUÔN is an exposition of thought, desire to travel and see a world beyond the walls of a city terminating the social , mental, physical, psychological , political and individually on their projects , nooks and architectures.

Buôn

2015

Buôn poster
NR

BUÔN is an exposition of thought, desire to travel and see a world beyond the walls of a city terminating the social , mental, physical, psychological , political and individually on their projects , nooks and architectures.

Buôn

2015

Jah Intervention poster
NR

Considering the research of the Brazilian Forum of Public Security (2017), Black people in Brazil are still more than half of the population of the country. Between 2005 and 2015 the number of black people murdered increased by 18% and this also made us the majority of homicide victims, accounting for 71% of all registered bodies. 'Jah Intervention' is a symbolic walk to exhaustion. The intervention proposes the preliminary warm-up that precedes a fight of titans in a boxing ring. The intervention consists of the movement of the performer sensing the sudden fall when affected by perforations by bullets of semi-automatic weapons.

Jah Intervention

2019