Neighboring Sounds (Portuguese: O Som ao Redor) is a 2012 Brazilian drama film directed and written by Kleber Mendonça Filho, produced by Emilie Lesclaux and starring Irandhir Santos, Gustavo Jahn and Maeve Jinkings.

Beatriz Linhares is a middle-aged married housewife with two young children (the two in the prologue), Fernanda and Nelsinho, living in a middle-class neighborhood in Recife, Brazil.

While visiting at his uncle Anco’s, they are approached by Clodoaldo, a man representing an independent private security firm looking to do business with families on the street.

Clodoaldo and his coworker, the one-eyed Fernando, pay a visit to Francisco, João and Dinho’s grandfather, Anco’s father, and the owner of half of the property in the area, to receive his blessing to start work in the neighborhood.

Some time later, Beatriz and her family express their disappointment over the security men, who allowed two car CD players to be stolen just the night before and generally come off as trying to create problems so they can step in to solve them.

He meets Sofia and the two go to his room; unbeknownst to them, as they make out in the elevator, they are being watched by the night watchman through the surveillance camera.

As he returns safely, Clodoaldo calls Dinho from a pay phone, threatening to kill him if he burgles another car.

Back in Recife, Clodoaldo tells his men that he will have to leave for some time to run errands for his brother Claudio, who has just arrived in the area.

The film ends with a freeze frame - of Beatriz, her husband, and Fernanda gathered together, looking at the fireworks while some paces away, a cowering Nelsinho looks away, his hands over his ears.

Neighboring Sounds is the first fiction feature film from director Kleber Mendonça Filho, who had previously directed the documentary Critical.

Recife and Zona da Mata in Pernambuco serve as a backdrop for the dialogue of the actors, being recorded in July and August 2010 for 6 weeks and 3 days.

The website's critical consensus states: "An outstanding feature debut for director Kleber Mendonça Filho, Neighbouring Sounds takes a delightfully dark -- and wholly absorbing -- look at human nature".

[8] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 77 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "generaly favorable reviews".