Thaíde

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.

학교에서는 왕따, 집안에서는 찬밥 신세를 면치 못하는 17살의 소녀 라켈은 지겨운 일상을 벗어날 파격적인 결심을 한다. 바로 거리의 콜걸이 되기로 한 것! 라켈은 브루나라는 가명으로 콜걸 일을 시작하고 다혈질의 제닌, 친절한 가비와 친해지며 콜걸로서 자신만의 새로운 사업을 시작하게 된다. 브루나 서피스티나란 이름으로 블로그를 시작하게 된 라켈은 콜걸로서 겪는 자신의 일상을 솔직하게 글로 풀어내고, 곧 라켈의 블로그는 대중들의 인기를 끌며 유명세를 얻게 된다. 점차 그녀를 찾는 고객과 돈, 명성이 늘어가고 순식간에 브라질 최고의 유명인사가 된 라켈! 하지만 마약과 사치로 방탕한 생활에 빠져든 라켈은 최고의 자리에서 점차 내리막길을 걷고, 마약 중독자가 된 그녀를 멀리하는 고객들로 인해 돈까지 바닥나는데…… 과연 그녀는 진정한 자신을 되찾을 수 있을까.

Fishy businessman deposits some money in his secretary’s (and lover) account. But a typing mistake sends the money to an honest woman’s account, whose husband had just been fired.

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.