Ficções Sõnicas #2 is a film-play made in downtown São Paulo, during the pandemic. In history, they occupy the Municipal Theater and rehearse a play without an audience, in a search path that awakens them from the inaction and automation of sensitivity. The film-play is part of the Sonic Fictions Project, idealized by Grace Passô, where a series of artistic creations are made to experience children and act on the basis of black lives in diaspora.
Lucas Andrade
Marly Montoni
Novíssimo Edgar
Silvia Kamyla
Ficções Sõnicas #2 is a film-play made in downtown São Paulo, during the pandemic. In history, they occupy the Municipal Theater and rehearse a play without an audience, in a search path that awakens them from the inaction and automation of sensitivity. The film-play is part of the Sonic Fictions Project, idealized by Grace Passô, where a series of artistic creations are made to experience children and act on the basis of black lives in diaspora.
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.
An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.
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When a rebellious teen embarks on a solo summer journey to connect with her roots, she finds herself in a new world, geared up for the ride of her life, and discovers she had the drive in her all along.
A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age she marries and has a child--with an abusive thief who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, another thief, who seems to give her some happiness but who also ends up locked up. She then takes up with a series of seedy types who offer nothing but momentary pleasure--if that.
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An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
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