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One of the world’s largest cities, São Paulo has inspired generations of filmmakers to engage with its scale and contradictions, transforming the city's tensions and dynamism into some of Brazilian cinema’s most vivid and enduring images.
By Filipe Furtado
By Anton Bitel
By Chloe Walker
By Rory Doherty
By Alex Ramon
By Brogan Morris
By Alex Davidson, Grace Barber-Plentie and others
By Brogan Morris
By Ali Lalfam
By Christina Newland
By Rory Doherty
By Chloe Walker
By David Parkinson
By Miriam Balanescu
By Bob Mastrangelo
By Leigh Singer
By Pamela Hutchinson
By Ginette Vincendeau
By David Parkinson
By Jasper Sharp
By David Parkinson
By Chantelle Lavel Boyea, Josephine Botting and others
By Michael Brooke
By Michael Ewins
By John Berra
By Georgina Guthrie
By Pamela Hutchinson
By Rory Doherty
By Anton Bitel
