Complexo: Parallel Universe

The Corporate Coup D'État

A democracy should protect its most vulnerable citizens, but increasingly the United States is failing to do so. This investigation blends the insight

2018

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

Notes on a True Story

On the evening of March 11, 1950, Annabella Bracci, a 12-year-old girl, was brutally killed and thrown into a pit on the outskirts of Rome, near the v

1953

Straight to the Point

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

2012

School Town King

It follows two teenage rappers in Bangkok who use their musical talent to navigate their difficult circumstances.

2020

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

Grafite é do Morro

2023

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

Brasilianische Protokolle 2

Documentary film about a slum community on the outskirts of Recife, a major city in northeastern Brazil. A portrait of life in extreme poverty and law

1992

The Good Fight

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

2017

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

Birth of the Tramp

A look back at Charlie Chaplin's early life and career, from his rough childhood and music hall success in England to his early Hollywood days and the

2013

The Changing Face Of Salford Collection

Between 1968 and 1970, J M Goodger, a lecturer at the University of Salford, made a film record of the living conditions in the slums of Ordsall, Salf

1970

São Paulo: Uma Cidade Segregada

2020

L'Homme de Rio - A vida loca

2022

The Other Side of the Postcard

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

2016

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

Favela no Ar

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

2002