Carandiru
When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo – Carandiru, he discovers the victim of…
Pixote
10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote…
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the…
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui are mobile partners at a South American prison. Luis, a homosexual, is found accountable of improper behavior and Valentin is a political leader. To flee…