PRESTES MAIA - FREEDOM IN CONCRETE

A documentary by Levin Peter and Jonas Ginter
52 min., in co-production with ZDF/arte

Sao Paulo, 2007: Brazil is on its way to becoming an economic superpower. Right in the centre of the 20-million Metropolis Sao Paulo is Prestes Maia Road 911, where a bastion of the underclass can be found. It is a large and proud bastion, with 468 families on 22 floors, 1379 inhabitants with 1379 stories. All of them have only one goal: To stay. But the government has different plans. "PRESTES MAIA - FREEDOM IN CONCRETE" is a film about a country on its way to becoming a global player and about its poorest people, who are trying their best to find their place, as well as stand their ground in a new society.

Nominated for the German Human Rights Film Award in 2008.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• prestes
• maia
• sao
• paulo

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