receiving oscar nomination for best cinematography, best director, best editing and best adapted screenplay, and awarded in over 40 film festivals globally information on this both intoxicating and visually engaging film can be found on the films' official website here.

directed by paulo morelli and co-produced by fernando meirelles cidade dos hommens (2007), or city of men, is a companion piece to the distinguished cidade de deus (city of god, 2002).

based on a successful brazilian tv series of the same name which ran for four seasons, city of men features two actors from the original film (darlan cunha and douglas silva), now playing the roles of wallace and ace, two 'blood brothers' living in the notorious favelas located in rio de janeiro's hills where crime and drug related crime is endemic.