Irandhir Santos

Sequel to thriller Elite Squad and Brazil's all time biggest box office hit. Depicts Rio's special military police unit, a crack squad assembled to confront the drug lords that run rampant through the city's notorious flavela's (slums)...

Brazilian drama about life on one upscale street in the city of Recife, winner of the Critics' Prize at the Rotterdam Film Festival 2012 for "evoking an atmosphere of paranoia and menace through a highly ambitious use of sound and cinematography".