Paulo Lins Movies

A documentary about urban violence in Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro. Policemen, drug dealers, and shantytown dwellers get trapped in a daily wa...

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents t...

32 renowned Brazilian screenwriters of the contemporary Brazilian cinema talk about their creative processes. From the concept of script to their agre...

A look at Rio's cultural, political and technical revolutions since the 1970s to 2011

One day, Eduardo arrives at his house and discovers that Julia, his wife, tried to commit suicide. She left her husband and two children without sayin...

Documentary focusing on Brazilian samba singer Bezerra da Silva and the composers he chooses to record: simple people, workers living in the poor slum...

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