Los Amantes del Circulo Polar

A story of circular lives, with circular names, and a circular place.

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City of God

The streets of the world's most notorious slum, Rio de Janeiro's "City of God," are a place where combat photographers fear to tread, police rarely go, and residents are lucky if they live to the age of 20. In the midst of the oppressive crime and violence, a frail and scared young boy will grow up to discover that he can view the harsh realities of his surroundings with a different eye: the eye of an artist. In the face of impossible odds, his brave ambition to become a professional photographer becomes a window into his world ... and ultimately his way out!

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Das Leben der Anderen

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

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The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

You might even begin reconsidering your relationship with the animal kingdom and questioning the distance you put between yourself and nonhuman species.
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES

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