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Welcome to São Paulo
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Welcome to São Paulo

2004-07-16 · 96 min · ★ 6.2

Drama · Documentary

All the feature is given prestige to by the narration in Caetano Veloso's voice, that also signs one of the segments of the project. São Paulo is the largest city of the Southern Hemisphere, with an incessant dynamics of cultural mixtures, with immigrants of all the world and migrants of all parts of Brazil. The gathering of these peculiarities are seen through the 13 film directors's sensibilities and their segments.

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Directors
Amos Gitai, Mika Kaurismäki, Jim McBride, Maria de Medeiros, Wolfgang Becker, Hanna Elias, Yoshishige Yoshida, Leon Cakoff, Renata de Almeida, Phillip Noyce, Tsai Ming-liang, Caetano Veloso
Production companies
Mostra Filmes
Countries
Brazil
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Released

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Caetano VelosoCaetano VelosoNarrator

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