City of God (2002)

In Rio’s most dangerous favela, two boys take different paths amid rising violence

Growing up in the City of God, a crime-ridden favela in 1970s Rio de Janeiro, Rocket dreams of becoming a photographer while his childhood friend Li’l Zé rises through the ranks of the local drug trade. As the city descends into gang warfare, Rocket uses his camera to survive and tell the truth. Their paths take them in opposite directions, but both are shaped by the violence around them.