It seems a hopeless place, much like its namesake movie that’s competing for four Academy Awards — dusty and unrelentingly hot, with rotting wooden shacks and chickens scratching at piles of fetid ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — It is one of Rio’s most renowned favelas, the Cidade de Deus made infamous in a film that helped cement a stereotype of the other side of the “Marvelous City” that is host of the ...

Rio's Slum Literature Festival (FLUPP) began on Tuesday (Nov. 8) and celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Cidade de Deus favela community, spotlighted in Fernando Meirelles's 2002 film, City of God.

“City of God” is a harrowing depiction of the rise of organized crime and gang violence in the Cidade de Deus favela, or slum, of Rio de Janeiro. Released in 2002, the Brazilian film earned four ...

Story by Sean Coppack, CNN, video by Sean Coppack, Cameron Bauer and Patricia Valeriano de Medeiros Rio de Janeiro’s notorious Cidade de Deus favela was immortalized in the 2002 film bearing its name ...

Cidade De Deus: A housing project by the Brazilian government to provide shelter for the homeless. No running water, no electricity. Gangs make the streets unsafe. Two boys, Buscapé and Dadinho, grow ...