Fernando Meirelles Movies

Determined to escape their poverty-stricken lives, four talented young women living on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, form an all-female rap...

Observational documentary about people as refugees and asylum seekers in many geographical locations such as Germany, Brazil, Western Sahara,...

Two young boys, Laranjinha and Acerola, living in Cidade de Deus, one of the most violent neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro, need some money to go to a...

This short film portrays the last hours of a young man before assuming homosexuality. He struggles to tell his father that he is gay, but gets...

A unique visual journey through galaxies, deep into the subatomic world of elementary particles, and into the center of the sun. Witness the...

Samuca is only 17 years old and discovers that his girlfriend Alicia is pregnant. The news comes to light at a not very favorable moment in Samuca's...

Documentary on the preparation of actors for "City of God".

Trinchas and his gang of graffiti taggers risk their lives climbing tall buildings to sign their names up there. When he falls for Valéria -...

An experimental documentary following the busy life of an office worker in São Paulo, Marly, and how he manages to have a personal life beyond...

A story about a man who hopes to see something extraordinary. Based upon the book of Henry James.

In The Meaning of Life we will take part on a journey throughout the world to question our existence through the inquiries of a young Brazilian, with...

The documentary “Comercial” brings a portrait of Brazilian advertising, from the perspective of the production of advertising films, told...

The story of a Burkinabé immigrant who is reluctantly drawn into a neighbour’s troubles in his Montreal apartment building.

For the first time ever, experience the work of a nation as it host the world and puts on a show like never before.

Follows the struggles of a small theatre company attempting to adapt a Shakespeare play.

In 1983, director Fernando Meirelles read an article in the newspaper about the punks circulating in downtown São Paulo. Half suspicious, he...

Reunion of four reportages made by production company "Olhar Eletrônico" between 1983 and 1986, in which an irreverent reporter, Ernesto...

A poetic vision of the city Brasília.