69 - Luz Square + The Tenants - Don’t Like it, Leave it

69 - Praça da luz (69 - Luz Square)
D: Carolina Markowicz, Joana Galvão, BR 2007, 20 min, English subtitles
The film is a portrait of aging prostitutes who work at the Praça da Luz in São Paulo. These five charming and confident women tell their own life stories and tales from the hard day-to-day of love for sale.

Os inquilinos (Os incomodados que se mudem) (The Tenants - Don’t Like it, Leave it)
D: Sérgio Bianchi, BR 2009, 103 min, English subtitles
A poor suburb of São Paulo, a little house and a “perfectly normal“ family: Valter works, Lara does the housework, daughter and son go to school. But then there’s a fight next-door. The woman moves out and takes revenge on her ex-husband by renting out rooms in the house to people who soon terrorize the whole neighborhood with wild, loud parties. A previously distant world of violence and drug gangs approaches dangerously close to the apparent peace and tranquillity of the neighborhood and the local disputes begin to escalate…

“Os Inquilinos“ won the prize for the best screenplay and the best supporting actress at Festival do Rio 2009.