Movies: Life in the slums

Anwar Ahmed Zayed is a Pakistani sleeper cell activist, who tried to inflict terror using a series of bombings in five different places of Kolkata. However, his plans are about to be derailed as Imtiyaz Kabir, the SP of Anti Terrorist Squad, headed b...

On the evening of March 11, 1950, Annabella Bracci, a 12-year-old girl, was brutally killed and thrown into a pit on the outskirts of Rome, near the village of Primavalle. A brief and poetic account of the events and their impact on an impoverished c...

In 2010, a scientist discovers aliens in orbit that resemble a cross between H.R. Giger's famous creation and Predator who want to invade Earth. They choose to start their invasion in Ghana because it is the most peaceful nation on the planet. The mu...

It follows two teenage rappers in Bangkok who use their musical talent to navigate their difficult circumstances....

A padre, acting for a dying soldier, poses as the heir to a slum property and becomes a Labour MP....

A daily life in Korogocho, Kenya, one of the world’s poorest slums....

No Rio de Janeiro, a 13 km do Cristo Redentor, dois portugueses aventuraram-se na mais temida favela do Brasil, onde moram mais de 300.000 pessoas - o Complexo do Alemão. Em 2007, no período de maior tensão e violência no Rio de Janeiro, viveram a ma...

Between 1968 and 1970, J M Goodger, a lecturer at the University of Salford, made a film record of the living conditions in the slums of Ordsall, Salford, which were then in the process of being demolished. Under the title 'The Changing face of Salfo...

Documentary film about a slum community on the outskirts of Recife, a major city in northeastern Brazil. A portrait of life in extreme poverty and lawlessness: men without work, hopeless women, hungry and sick children....

After the waning of the protests in Sanrizuka, Ogawa Pro started questioning the future of the collective and looking for other subjects to film. Following the method developed in the previous films, the filmmakers moved to the slum of Kotobuchi in the ...