One viewer rated the film a perfect 10/10 on IMDb and called it the "best film ever made." They wrote: "Fernando Meirelles's ...

Rio's Slum Literature Festival (FLUPP) began on Tuesday (Nov. 8) and celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Cidade de Deus favela community, spotlighted in Fernando Meirelles's 2002 film, City of God.

THANKS to a film (“City of God”) made in 2002, Cidade de Deus, a rundown housing project in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, became an internationally known symbol of the lawless urban squalor that has ...

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“City of God” is a harrowing depiction of the rise of organized crime and gang violence in the Cidade de Deus favela, or slum, of Rio de Janeiro. Released in 2002, the Brazilian film earned four ...

Story by Sean Coppack, CNN, video by Sean Coppack, Cameron Bauer and Patricia Valeriano de Medeiros Rio de Janeiro’s notorious Cidade de Deus favela was immortalized in the 2002 film bearing its name ...

Cidade de Deus (City of God) is a housing project built in the 1960s that–in the early 80s–became one of the most dangerous places in Rio de Janeiro. The tale tells the stories of many characters ...

A film documentary about the fate of the young actors of the award winning film City of God by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund. It shows how their lives unfolded after the film's worldwide success.