Edyr de Castro

Based on the true story of four friends who decide to install a communal pirate radio station called Rádio Favela in a shanty-town, to give voice to the outcasts' complaints. (imdb)

The story of three friends in Rio de Janeiro: Leon, a sociology student; his girlfiend Leticia, an architecture student; and Paulo, a medical student and Leon's best friend and roommate. When Rosalind, a leukemia patient at the hospital where Paulo interns, asks him to get in touch with her sons, the three friends are pulled out of their relatively tranquil lives and drawn into the violence and police corruption in one of Rio's infamous favelas (imdb)

Roman barber Matteo decides to escape from his responsibilities and the depressing reality of Italy and accepts his sister's invitation to Brazil.

Débora, an industrialist's wife, takes her husband to the airport and, returning home, finds two strangers who had broken in. One is violent and immature, but the other has a self-assured way that charms her, and she falls in love. But the arrival of a baroness, the men's accomplice, will explain their intentions. (imdb)