Welket Bungué
Actor
"Welket Bungué is a transdisciplinary artist of Balanta ethnicity. He is Guinean-Portuguese, born in Guinea-Bissau (the Xitole region). He lives in Berlin, but works internationally as an artist. He is a co-founder of the production company KUSSA, provides voice-over work for international organizations, and develops dramatic writing, film treatments, performances, and theater.
He holds a BA in Theatre (Actor Training) from ESTC (Lisbon) and a postgraduate degree in Performance from UniRio (Rio de Janeiro). He has been a permanent member of the Portuguese Film Academy since 2015, a member of the Deutsche Filmakademie since 2020, an associate member of the European Film Academy since 2021, and since 2021 his films have been part of the collection of Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art (Berlin).
In 2019, he received the “Angela Award – On The Move” at the Subtitle Festival in Kilkenny, Ireland. In 2020, Welket starred in “Berlin Alexanderplatz” (Berlinale 2020 International Competition), directed by Burhan Qurbani. His performance earned him a nomination for the Silver Bear, a nomination for Best Leading Actor at the LOLA awards of the German Film Academy (Deutscher Filmpreis), as well as the Bronze Horse for Best Actor at the Stockholm International Film Festival.
In June 2022, Welket released his first book, “Corpo Periférico”, on Amazon—an autobiographical essay on auteur filmmaking grounded in the concept of “self-representation cinema” that gives the book its title."