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 reperto