City of God
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Z
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In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Z
When villagers are murdered in a strange village, the survivors band together to find the culprit. Every day they can exile someone. Every night the killer can murder. Based on the game of the same name.
(within the project URB) CIDADE is a TV series that takes place in the diverse, urbanistically chaotic and multicultural periphery of Lisbon. Each episode has for landscape and dramatic background the everyday-life in th
Best friends Deco and Naldinho co-own a cargo boat in Brazil's Salvador da Bahia. They give a ride to a sultry prostitute named Karinna, and soon both men fall prey to her considerable sexual charms, pushing the bounds o
Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
A theater manager about to go bankrupt decides to accept help from his daughter and her boyfriend to save the family's finances, which she does with the sponsorship of a rich man.
When her mother dies, 40-year-old Helena now has time for herself after years of taking care of her family. She works at a film production company, dances boisterously, gets drunk. A quiet film about letting go morphs in
Vangelis spends one last day in Porto before moving back to Greece. The city holds memories of love and friendship, but now it's time for farewells.
The perception of a photograph is demystified by the study of its landscape – the landscape of a hill marked by the standstill of the several real estate projects that intend to transform it (between two sides of a munic
Two tales of migration. In the first, after a tailings dam disaster floods her hometown, rural worker Joana (55) moves to São Paulo to find her sister Tania, who lives with her grandson Jaime. Joana enters the universe
Based on true events, the film tells the story of Brazilian outlaw Promessinha, one of the most famous and feared criminals of his time, depicting his crimes and cruelty, until his death confronting the police.
Night falls and the noisy and chaotic population of the city of Rio de Janeiro goes to their homes, preparing for a new day. But while most people sleep, how does the city function? Early morning seems, to unaccustomed e
A new way of painting graffiti was born in Sao Paulo. Hip Hop was replaced by Brazilian regional culture and OsGemeos' crew works were spread to galleries around the world. However, a new visual pollution combat act made
Based on the historical fact of the arrival of the Portuguese royal family to Rio de Janeiro in 1808, Cidade Invisível proposes an upside-down archeology when questioning the myth of the Marvelous City and the irreverenc
When six-year-old Frederico finds out at school that people die when their hearts stop beating, he is unable to sleep that night. The next day, his mother asks the teacher once again: Must children always be told the tru
In an exercise of collage and images and sounds interventions collected on the internet, the film portrays the rains that happen every year in Belo Horizonte (…) and its consequences, the environmental destruction in the