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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
September 3, 2018
The story of a photograph: A single mother, an absent father and a child....
October 8, 2017
A boxer in Rio's favelas opens a club to help keep kids out of the burgeoning drug trade....
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...