Favela Movies

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...

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 -...

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...

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...

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

Set in Rio de Janeiro's most notorious favelas, the underprivileged youth share their perspective on the extremely popular, pornographic favela funk...

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

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

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

The women of the first Garífuna community in Honduras work hard for the future of their daughters. Surrounded by a dazzling landscape, they...

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

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

Sixty-six adolescents, residents of Favela da Maré, were selected to participate in a dance show led by the choreographer Ivaldo Bertazzo,...

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

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 story of the Candeal favela in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, where musician Carlinhos Brown carries out social and cultural initiatives that protect...