How Angels are Born

Two children from a slum in Rio have to run, together with a grown man. The man is in trouble with the person who runs the drug trade in the neighbourhood. In their flight they end up in the house where a wealthy American lives with his daughter. What follows is the meeting of two worlds inside one house. The film shows the children neither as innocent ornaments nor as criminals; it shows the order they were born into. The house is the place where the distance between the neighbourhood and the rest of the city is gathered into a single room. The account raises the tension without turning violence into a show. Priscila Assum, Sílvio Guindane and Larry Pine appear in Murilo Salles’s eighty eight minute Brazilian film, completed in 1996.