Independent Lens
Season 26 Episode 12 - Skin of Glass
6.5 ?
1999
Documentary
A journey to reckon with Brazil’s harsh inequality begins when filmmaker Denise Zmekhol discovers her father’s architectural masterpiece in São Paulo—a 24-story tall modernist icon known as “Pele de Vidro” (Skin of Glass)—is inhabited by hundreds of unhoused people. But after getting to know these occupants, what started as a personal quest becomes something much bigger.
Episodes in Season 26
1
One Person, One Vote?
77 min
2
Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen
86 min
3
Dallas, 2019 | Episode 1
52 min
4
Dallas, 2019 | Episode 2
52 min
5
Dallas, 2019 | Episode 3
50 min
6
Dallas, 2019 | Episode 4
55 min
7
Dallas, 2019 | Episode 5
48 min
8
Minted
76 min
9
Without Arrows
85 min
10
The Strike
85 min
11
The In Between
83 min
12
Skin of Glass
85 min
NOW PLAYING
13
Bike Vessel
85 min
14
Home Court
85 min
15
WE WANT THE FUNK!
82 min
16
Free For All: The Public Library
84 min
17
Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer's
54 min
18
And So It Begins
84 min
19
Who is Michael Jang?
42 min
