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 ...

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 ...

There are no cinema screenings for «City of God - Cidade de Deus» on Friday, 2. January 2026.

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 ...

Now City of God, Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund’s 2002 crime epic set in the Rio De Janeiro slum – or favela – Cidade de Deus, gets the HBO treatment with a six-part TV series that honours the ...