Fuga da Rocinha

The Violin Teacher

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 f

2015

How Angels are Born

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

1996

Streets of Rio

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 t

2008

Ponho A Mão No Fogo

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

2016

Queda

2023

Eu, Minha Mãe e Wallace

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

2018

Complexes

The short documentary ‘Complexos‘ features intimate and emotional views on how residents of favelas in Rio de Janeiro use media and arts to raise thei

2020

Public Domain

Between 2011 and 2014, the documentary investigated the changes in Rio de Janeiro on behalf of mega-events: UPPs in slums, forced evictions, public sp

2014

Quando a parede cai

2009

Zé Barriga

2007

Grafite é do Morro

2023

Gringo on the Slum

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

2015

Straight to the Point

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

2012

Complexo: Parallel Universe

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

2011

Noites em Claro

2022

Chega de Demanda

Documentary addressing the composer Cartola and the transformations that took place in Morro Carioca and in Samba during his life. Founder of the Esco

1973

The Good Fight

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

2017

São Paulo: Uma Cidade Segregada

2020

L'Homme de Rio - A vida loca

2022

Dancing with the Devil

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

2009