The Other Side of the Postcard (2016)

Overview : The Favela Pacification Program was launched in 2008 to reduce crime and drug trafficking in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In April 2015 however, police shot and killed 10-year old Eduardo in Complexo do Alemão, causing uproar in that community. Alemão and other pacified communities began to realise that the program had become the very thing it was designed to destroy. Taking place in the build to the 2016 Olympic Games, this is the side of Rio that you have never seen before.

Release Date : December 31, 2016

Runtime : 60m

Genre : Documentary  

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Countries : United Kingdom, Brazil

Keywords : police, olympic games, drugs, social injustice, inequality, favela, repressive systems