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An overview on Brazilian hip hop through interviews with some of its most important artists.

On the night of the return to the stage of a famous rock band from the 1980s, a video that involves the band`s lead singer Aurélio Sá in the death of a military policeman, goes viral.

Mauro Mateus dos Santos was known by another name: Sabotage. Growing up amidst poverty in São Paulo, the musician, who became a legend after his death, is one of the most important names in national rap.

Edgar is a young upper-middle class man, close to completing 30 years old, he lives a full life crisis and is in a position common to the vast majority of Brazilians. On the one hand the power, represented by a corrupt state, abusive and absent in their taxes before their obligations. On the other, crime increasingly organized violence became a constant in the lives of citizens in large cities. Edgar responds to all this as a modern vigilante. With the help of ingredients such as technology, counter-information and manipulation, Edgar concocts a brilliant plan, using the greed of their opponents as the reason for its destruction. As the plot unfolds, we know more about the dark past of each character as Edgar fit the pieces together in an intriguing puzzle that makes up the film's plot.

Raquel Pacheco es una joven brasileña de 21 años que con el seudónimo de Bruna Surfistinha se ha convertido en un fenómeno de ventas en su país tras editas, gracias a la fama ganada en su blog, un libro en el que narra las experiencias sexuales que le dejaron tres años de prostitución.

Un retrato de la corrupción. A partir de una serie de equívocos, cierta suma de dinero acaba en manos de la novia de un empleado que no tiene nada que ver con la transacción. A pesar de ser una denuncia de carácter moral contra la corrupción, se convierte en una comedia desopilante. (FILMAFFINITY)

Determined to escape their poverty-stricken lives, four talented young women living on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, form an all-female rap group but find their road to success is riddled with sexism, racism, and violence. One by one, they succumb to their grim realities...until they discover that out of struggle come strength, and out of strength, the courage to continue on.

The existence of racial discrimination did not prevent the affirmation of the black community in the urban space of São Paulo. Members of the black community, in intimate accounts, tell their origins, life trajectory, dreams, anxieties and how they see the situation of blacks, 102 years after the supposed abolition of slavery. Black women and men continue to have to fight for minimum rights and recognition of existence. Black resistance is an example of the struggle of oppressed peoples.