Urban Reality

With the goal of raising awareness and sparking advocacy, this documentary film highlights - just through images with music, not with spoken words - the barriers in the day-to-day life of a Brazilian citizen, Rosângela Botelho, who has been crippled by polio. The challenges she experiences just trying to make it to work one morning reflect the reality experienced by many disabled people in the Amazon region.

Filmmakers say that the failure to make urban settings more accessible to people with physical disabilities worsens the quality of life and violates the human rights of many people in Brazil: Data from Census 2010 showed that the country has 45,623,910 inhabitants who have some kind of disability.