Favela Movies

The documentary portrays the collective traumas of the militarization of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas occupied by the Armed Forces during the mega...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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