Um Lugar ao Sol

Gabriel Mascaro

IndieLisboa 2010 •

Brazil, Documentary, 72′

What does it mean to own a penthouse apartment in poverty-plagued Brazil? “High-Rise” examines this topic in a hypnotic and revealing examination, blending interviews with nine penthouse residents, owners of enviable killer views of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Recife, and a look from below, an overcrowded world that seems to be building on every square inch of land, with nowhere to go but up.