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Original name: Levante
English name: Power Alley
Year: 2023
Run time: 99 Min
Language: Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Brazil, France, Uruguay
Director: Lillah Halla
Producers: Clarissa Guarilha, Rafaella Costa, Louise Bellicaud, Claire Charles-Gervais
Cast: Ayomi Domenica Dias, Loro Bardot, Grace Passô, Gláucia Vandeveld, Rômulo Braga
Screenplay: María Elena Morán, Lillah Halla
Cinematographer: Wilssa Esser
Editor: Eva Randolph
Sound Designer: Ruben Valdés, Waldir Xavier, Alejandro Grillo
Music Composer: Maria Beraldo, Badsista
Production Company: Arissas, Manjericão Filmes, In Vivo Films, Cimarrón Cine
World Sales: M-Appeal
Lillah Halla is a Brazilian filmmaker graduated from EICTV, Cuba. Her short film Menarca (2020), was one of the ten selected at the Cannes Critics' Week, licensed by Canal + and MUBI. Menarca was awarded at TIFF -Tirana (2021), Toulouse (2021), Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (2020) and Curta Cinema (2020). Power Alley (2023), is her debut feature film. Her second feature, Flehmen, currently under development, was part of Full Circle Lab Nouvelle Aquitaine and Sam Spiegel Jerusalem Lab in 2021/2022.
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Teen-volleyball player Sofia’s future freedom and agency are threatened by a violent swarm mentality...
On the eve of a future-defining championship, promising volleyball player SOFIA (17) is faced with an unwanted pregnancy. Seeking an illegal termination, she becomes the target of a fundamentalist group determined to stop her at any cost – but neither Sofia nor those who love her are willing to surrender to the blind fervor of the swarm.
