Welket Bungué

Welket Bungué born in Guinea-Bissau in 1988. He descends from the Balanta ethnicity, and he's based in Berlin since 2019. Bungué is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on performance and video. His cross-cultural education, from Africa, Europe, and Brazil, made himself a cross-national multi-talented artist. In 2017 he co-founded the production company KUSSA with his brother Welsau Bungué, in Paris. Bungué holds a degree in Theater Acting (ESTC / Lisbon) and a postgraduate degree in Performance Art (UniRio / Brazil). Bungué is an artist featured by the Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art (Berlin), and since 2021 his films are part of the institution's collection. Bungué's films have circulated internationally through numerous film festivals such as Berlinale, ABFF (USA), Africlap (France), Zanzibar IFF, Afrikamera (Berlin), BFI London and Sheffield DocFest (UK), IndieLisboa, DocLisboa, Curta Cinema IFF (RJ, Brazil), as well as the Stockholm Dansfilmfestival. Welket repertoire on filmmaking reunites more than 25 creations, including the short film titles 'Calling Cabral' (2022), 'Mudança' (2020), 'Jah Intervention' (2019), 'I am Not Pilatus' (2019), 'Arriaga' (2019) and 'Bastien' (2016). In 2020 Welket won the "MAAT Grand Prize - FUSO Intl. Festival of Video Art of Lisbon" with his film 'Metalheart', also starred Franz Biberkopf in 'Berlin Alexanderplatz' (Berlinale Official Competition 2020), directed by Burhan Qurbani, which lead him to a nomination as "Best Male Lead" at the LOLA awards of the German Film Academy (Deutscher Filmpreis), and grant him a "Aluminum Horse Prize" for "Best Actor" at the Stockholm Intl. Film Festival. In June 2022 Welket released his first book 'Corpo Periférico' on the Amazon platform, it is an autobiographical essay on auteur filmmaking based on the eponymous concept of "self-portraying cinema". Welket Bungué is part of the main cast of the new film from David Cronenberg, 'Crimes of the Future', among the actors Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, and Kristen Stewart.