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...

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...

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...

Anderson (Andrey Lopes) is a high-class youth living in Copacabana, and Eliza (Maiara Queiroz), a resident of Rocinha,the largest favela in Brazil....

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...

The Favela Pacification Program was launched in 2008 to reduce crime and drug trafficking in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In April 2015 however, police...

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 -...

Documentary about the singer Bezerra da Silva and the relation with his composers.

The drama recounts the need for dialogue and attention on raising children through their characters: three mothers and their children. Marcia (Dani...

The documentary shows the awakening of the poor youth to social consciousness in the identification of life that imitates art with art that imitates...

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

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

Rio de Janeiro, during the 90's. Evandro dreams about becoming a great businessman, but ends up entering the world of crime and making an empire out...

Twenty years after City of God, Buscapé recounts how conflicts between police, traffickers, and militias impacted the community.

Told through three different characters' perspectives, the story of Sintonia explores the interconnection of the music, drug traffic, and religion in...

2010: Just as the Brazilian government launch a military-assisted siege on one of Rio de Janeiro’s most notorious and criminally-controlled...