Storyline

An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords

poverty, dead baby, single mother, working mom, drug dealing, photography, armed robbery, pride, gang warfare, slum, creativity, trash, social activism, cook, bathtub, posing for a photograph, rio de janeiro brazil, dignity, garbage dump, garbage

Short Review

With Walker and cinematographer Dudu Miranda, Muniz has a hawk's eye for the weird beauty of bulldozed hillocks of trash and the catador faces that he chose to star in photographic portraits.

Trailer

Streaming Service

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