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The mean streets of the favelas and slums of Brazil have provided plenty of filmmakers with fodder for gritty urban gangster stories, but few have managed to immerse the viewer in this world better than City Of God.

Spanning two decades, City Of God adopts an approach to the cinematography which is reminiscent of the photojournalism of the time. Action is captured with frenetic wide angle lenses, while some of the oversaturated images serve to elevate the feeling of intense summer heat, rising off the roofs of the ramshackle slums as chickens run around frantically trying to escape a looming meat cleaver.

It's an energetic, violent foray into a world of slum gangs most people are fortunate enough to not have to experience for themselves. A recent documentary, City Of God : 10 Years Later returns to the native cast and explores what has changed since the film was made.