News from a Personal War (1999)

Original title

Notícias de uma Guerra Particular

Directed by

João Moreira Salles, Kátia Lund

Genre

documentary film

Country

Brazil

Runtime

57 min

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 21 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film shows the daily life inside Rio de Janeiro's slums, where drug trafficking and police violence are constant. It follows the people living there and the conflicts that shape their world.

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What happens

News from a Personal War is a 1999 Brazilian documentary film by João Moreira Salles and Kátia Lund, about the urban violence-ridden slums in Rio de Janeiro. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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