Summary: The story of three friends in Rio de Janeiro: Leon, a sociology student; his girlfiend Leticia, an architecture student; and Paulo, a medical student and Leon’s best friend and roommate. When Rosalind, a leukemia patient at the hospital where Paulo interns, asks him to get in touch with her sons, the three friends are pulled out of their relatively tranquil lives and drawn into the violence and police corruption in one of Rio’s infamous favelas (imdb)

AKA: Forbidden to Forbid

Genre: Drama

Country: Brazil, Chile, Spain

Directed By: Jorge Durán

Starring: Maria Flor, Alexandre Rodrigues, Caio Blat, Edyr de Castro, Raquel Pedras, Adriano de Jesus, Luciano Vidigal, Andressa Furletti

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