Directed by João Moreira Salles, Kátia Lund, Walter Salles.
From one of the co-directors of City of God (2002), News from a Personal War succinctly lays out the battle between Rio’s police forces and the drug dealers who dominate the slums (favelas). The filmmakers go beyond the cops’ and the dealers’ points of view to get all sides of the story. The result is an unusually spellbinding hour that’s harder-hitting and more astonishing than any fiction film could be.
Screenwriter: João Moreira Salles, Kátia Lund. Cinematographer: Geraldo Ribeiro. Editor: Flavio Nuñes, Philippe Bourgogne.
DigiBeta, color, in Portuguese with English subtitles, 56 min.