Favela Movies

Vitória is an elderly woman who lives alone and feels distressed by the increasing violence in her neighborhood. Amid conflicts with her...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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 -...

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

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

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

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

Dé, Adrianim and Martins are three black teenagers from Chatuba, Rio de Janeiro. When Dé receives the news that Almerinda, his...

Brazil's "Red Command" drug cartel is considered a plague by the government. But for the people of the favelas they control, Red Command *is* the...