AFI Latin American Film Festival 2009

Towering above the slums and shores of Brazil, the penthouses of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo offer a vantage point appropriate to their wealthy residents: distant, insular and protected. Focusing on this divide, Gabriel Mascaro trains his camera on a series of exclusive apartments and their blinkered residents, mixing mesmerizing architectural footage and candid interviews to explore a world where privilege creates its own reality. Powerful, hypnotic and disturbing, this is a must-see documentary.