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Vitória

March 12, 2025

Inspired by a real woman, who filmed for two years, hidden, the routine of drug dealers on Ladeira dos Tabajaras, in Copacabana, in 2004. At the time, the material was passed on to the polic...

The Violin Teacher

November 13, 2015

After failing to be admitted into the OSESP Orchestra, a talented violinist is forced to give music classes to teenagers in a public school. He soon finds his world transformed by the power ...

White House

January 22, 2025

Dé, Adrianim and Martins are three black teenagers from Chatuba, Rio de Janeiro. When Dé receives the news that Almerinda, his grandmother, is in the terminal phase of Alzheimer's disease, h...

How Angels are Born

August 5, 1996

Two children flee together with a grown up from a slum in Rio because this man had problems with the local drug lord. They end up in the house where a rich American citizen lives with his da...

Dancing with the Devil

December 31, 2008

Rio de Janeiro. September, 2008. Three men stalk the gloomy back-alleys of the city's notorious slums. Spiderman, a 28-year-old drug lord, embarks on a routine patrol through the shadowy str...

abdução na favela

November 27, 2024

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Complexo: Parallel Universe

January 12, 2011

No Rio de Janeiro, a 13 km do Cristo Redentor, dois portugueses aventuraram-se na mais temida favela do Brasil, onde moram mais de 300.000 pessoas - o Complexo do Alemão. Em 2007, no período...

The Miracle of Candeal

September 29, 2004

The story of the Candeal favela in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, where musician Carlinhos Brown carries out social and cultural initiatives that protect and enrich the lives of its inhabitants ...

Streets of Rio

January 29, 2008

Rio de Janeiro. Confronted with the violence that exists in the favela where he lives, Tiago sees the only way out to become a soccer player and, in this way, help his family to have a bette...

Queda

May 20, 2023

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Complexes

October 21, 2020

The short documentary ‘Complexos‘ features intimate and emotional views on how residents of favelas in Rio de Janeiro use media and arts to raise their voices and act for justice, dignity an...

Eu, Minha Mãe e Wallace

September 3, 2018

The story of a photograph: A single mother, an absent father and a child....

The Good Fight

October 8, 2017

A boxer in Rio's favelas opens a club to help keep kids out of the burgeoning drug trade....

Fuga da Rocinha

September 8, 2016

Anderson (Andrey Lopes) is a high-class youth living in Copacabana, and Eliza (Maiara Queiroz), a resident of Rocinha,the largest favela in Brazil. The two start a romance, but the first tim...

The Other Side of the Postcard

December 30, 2016

The Favela Pacification Program was launched in 2008 to reduce crime and drug trafficking in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In April 2015 however, police shot and killed 10-year old Eduardo in Comp...

Inside the Mind of Favela Funk

February 3, 2016

Set in Rio de Janeiro's most notorious favelas, the underprivileged youth share their perspective on the extremely popular, pornographic favela funk music with respect to their personal (lov...

Gringo on the Slum

July 20, 2015

Documentary about the foreign tourism in Rocinha, the biggest Latin America's favela, which receives about 3.000 foreign tourists per month. They come to Rocinha looking for the most varied ...

Our Stories, Ourselves

April 6, 2013

Sixty-six adolescents, residents of Favela da Maré, were selected to participate in a dance show led by the choreographer Ivaldo Bertazzo, which incorporated their own daily experiences. Ten...