Funk Rio

Funk Rio

1994 · 45 min · ★ 7.0

Rio Funk is a project about kids from favelas in Rio how to get hope and learn how to escape from their indistinct fate to be drug dealers in the future.

Directed by Sérgio Goldenberg

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