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When poverty becomes a product : the favelas of Rio de Janeiro are a representation of the Brazilian social disarray

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06/06/2013 - 19:15

Director Wojciech Staron arrives in a village in Argentina where his wife is going to teach Polish to emigrants.

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09/06/2013 - 10:30

The young Cocada and Nego are animated by the same desire to become adults and earn money.

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07/06/2013 - 21:00

In a small village in Uruguay, a football clubhouse is transformed into a brothel for transvestites before then being restored into a chapel.

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04/06/2013 - 21:00

In a small village in Uruguay, a football clubhouse is transformed into a brothel for transvestites before then being restored into a chapel.

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01/06/2013 - 14:00

Poor families have lived for generations in palafitas, shanty towns on stilts. A government project was supposed to rehouse them in new dwellings.

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01/06/2013 - 11:00
06/06/2013 - 16:30

To the rest of the world, the favelas of Rio de Janeiro are a representation of the Brazilian social disarray. Yet they are also one of the city's the most attractive points of interest.

The young Cocada dreams of becoming a truck driver. Since his father was murdered, he found a surrogate father, Mineiro, a truck driver that supports him and takes time to talk to him.

In Bahia, Brazil, generations of impoverished families have lived in palafitas, slums on stilts. A government project is supposed to relocate them to new homes, but it remains on hold.

In an isolated village of Uruguay, a community house that first started as the BELLA VISTA Football Club clubhouse then became a successful transvestite brothel before being turned into a Sunday s

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