It seems a hopeless place, much like its namesake movie that’s competing for four Academy Awards — dusty and unrelentingly hot, with rotting wooden shacks and chickens scratching at piles of fetid ...

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.

Cidade De Deus: A housing project by the Brazilian government to provide shelter for the homeless. No running water, no electricity. Gangs make the streets unsafe. Two boys, Buscapé and Dadinho, grow ...

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 ...

Cidade de Deus is a hoiusing project built in the 1960' that, in the early 80's became one of the most dangerous place in Rio de Janeiro. Fusée is too scared and too sensible to become a criminal, but ...

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 ...