In 1981, a breaking battle between the Rocksteady Crew and the Dynamic Rockers in New York City sparks a movement that grows from its devastated borough origins to influence the highest ranks of sports and entertainment.
On a winter night like any other, among the streets of a small provincial town, a group of boys consumes the hours of darkness between the euphoria of alcohol and the torpor of heroin. Among them is Giammaria, born into a loving family but raised in the violence of a daily life on the margins, wild and dark. During the night, an unanswered call from an unknown number leads the protagonist down a twisted and fragmented path.
Oração is a song-film where two musicians and a dancer elaborate the relationship between Afro-Brazilian diasporic memory and popular song. Based on a reference to collage and beat, the film develops strategies for inventing the memory of bodies historically deprived of their history and their affections. A proposal for the present and also for the future, a request, a thank you. The voice, the song, as a place of sharing, healing and singing: a prayer.
In this whimsical short animated musical, Fellinda Cauldron is inspired by the moon to make a magical dancing potion. Can she over come her doubts and complete her bubbling brew? Broomsticks on Broadway celebrates the joyful aspects of the creative process; paying homage to MGM musicals and old Hollywood glamour with a spooky twist.