Skin of Glass

Name: Skin of Glass
Director: Denise Zmekhol
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2026-03-19
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Denise Zmekhol, Eduardo Suplicy, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Guilherme Wisnik

Original title: Pele de Vidro

7.0(1)NR20261h 30mEN

Directed by Denise Zmekhol

A poetic and personal cinematic meditation on displacement and loss, SKIN OF GLASS follows filmmaker Denise Zmekhol’s journey after discovering that her late father's most celebrated work as an architect, a modernist glass skyscraper in the heart of São Paulo, Brazil, has become occupied by hundreds of homeless families.

sao paulo, brazil