Welket Bungué

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Welket Bungué at the Berlinale 2017

Welket Bungué (born February 7, 1988 in Xitole , Guinea-Bissau ) is a Guinea-Bissau- Portuguese actor and filmmaker living in Germany .

Life

Welket Bungué was born in a small village in southern Guinea-Bissau. His father Paulo Tambá Bungué († 2002) was a forest engineer and poet, his mother Segunda N'cabna was a national guard. He belongs to the Balanta ethnic group . Bungué's father joined the Portuguese colonial rulers' side during the War of Independence to obtain Portuguese citizenship and worked for them as a driver. At the age of three, Welket Bungué moved to Portugal with his brother, father and his new wife. His father died when he was 14 years old and left behind the autobiographical volume of poetry Cabaró Djitu tem! whose reading had a great influence on the son.

Bungué attended boarding school in Beja, southern Portugal, and at the age of 15 took part in a production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet , in which he played the part of Queen Gertrude. From 2005 he completed a professional acting training at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema in Lisbon and at the State University of Rio de Janeiro . According to his own statements, Bungué only understood his “legacy” as “black” in Brazil after his father died too early to teach him “to be a black man in Europe”.

Since 2007, Bungué has appeared in more than 40 film and television productions, including numerous series and short films, especially Portuguese films . From 2016 he also worked as a director, screenwriter, film producer and actor in self-directed short films. His directorial work Bastien and Arriaga were nominated for the Portuguese film award Sophia in 2017 and 2020 respectively. As an actor in the cinema, Bungué has appeared in Ivo Ferreira's historical drama Letters from the War (2016), Marcelo Caetano's award-winning coming-out drama Corpo Elétrico (2017) and Dinis M. Costa's drama Yellow Country (2018). He became known to an international audience in 2020 through the lead role in Burhan Qurbanis Berlin Alexanderplatz , a free film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Alfred Döblin . Bungué took on the role of an illegal African immigrant who, after the dangerous crossing over the Mediterranean, tries to lead a good and decent life despite all the circumstances. It was his first appearance in a German-language film production, which immediately earned him a nomination for the German Film Prize 2020 in the category Best Male Leading Role .

Welket Bungué is in a relationship with the photographer Kristin Bethge and lives in Berlin. He has been a member of the Portuguese Film Academy since 2015 and a member and co-founder of the Rasthilho theater groups in Lisbon and Homlet in Beja. Together with his brother Welsau Bungué (* 1988) he runs the film production company Kussa based in Paris .

Filmography (selection)

actor

  • 2007: Caravelas e Naus (TV)
  • 2009: Equador (TV multi-part)
  • 2009: Sobre Vivência (short film)
  • 2009: Morangos com Açúcar (TV series)
  • 2009: Makamba Hotel (TV series)
  • 2010: Meu Amor (TV series)
  • 2010: Sangue de Família (short film)
  • 2010: Eterno Erro (short film)
  • 2011: A Chamada (short film)
  • 2011: O Céu (short film)
  • 2011: Sisyfos' Dance (short film)
  • 2011: Mother (short film)
  • 2011: 360 º (short film)
  • 2011: 5 Para a Meia Noite (TV series)
  • 2012: Louco Amor (TV series)
  • 2012: Doida por Ti (TV series)
  • 2012: Soulleimane (short film)
  • 2013: Quarta Divisão
  • 2013: O Sol Nasce Semper do Mesmo Lado
  • 2013: Alma (short film)
  • 2013: Tejo Mar (short film)
  • 2014: Os Filhos do Rock (TV series)
  • 2014: Bicho (short film)
  • 2014: Isa (short film)
  • 2015: O Leão da Estrela
  • 2015: Sopro, Uivo e Assobio (short film)
  • 2015: Buôn (short film)
  • 2016: Letters from the War (Cartas da Guerra)
  • 2016: O Leão da Estrela: A Série (TV multi-part)
  • 2016: Bastien (short film)
  • 2017: Corpo Elétrico
  • 2017: Joaquim
  • 2017: A Ilha dos Cães
  • 2017: Woodgreen (short film)
  • 2017: Novo Mundo (TV series)
  • 2017: Mensagem (short film)
  • 2017-2018: País Irmão (TV series)
  • 2018: Aginal (short film)
  • 2018: Vã Alma (TV multi-part)
  • 2018: Yellow Country (short film)
  • 2019: E Nada Fizemos (short film)
  • 2019: Arriaga (short film)
  • 2019: Pedro
  • 2020: Past. Present. Future. (Short film)
  • 2020: Berlin Alexanderplatz

filmmakers

  • 2016: Bastien (short film)
  • 2017: Woodgreen (short film)
  • 2017: Mensagem (short film)
  • 2018: Aginal (short film)
  • 2018: Vã Alma (TV multi-part)
  • 2019: E Nada Fizemos (short film)
  • 2019: Arriaga (short film)

Awards

  • 2017: Shortcutz Xpress Viseu - Jury Prize for Bastien (Best Actor)
  • 2019: CinEuphoria Award for Yellow Country (Best Acting Ensemble - together with Marina Leonardo , Tomé Quirino , Cleo Tavares and Inês Vaz )
  • 2019: SUBTITLE European Film Festival - Angela Award ("On The Move")

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Fabian Federl: Welket Bungué: From nothing . In: tagesspiegel.de, February 25, 2020 (accessed February 25, 2020).
  2. ↑ Welket Bungué at filmportal.de (accessed on February 25, 2020).
  3. ↑ Welket Bungué . In: filmfreeway.com (accessed February 26, 2020).
  4. ↑ About Kussa . In: kussaproductions.com (accessed February 26, 2020).
personal data
SURNAME Bungué, Welket
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Guinea-Bissau-Porguian actor and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Xitole , Guinea-Bissau