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Moving between Luanda and Lisbon, Inês Gonçalves and Kiluanje Liberdade portray a new generation of Angolans who see the ultimate expression of their curtural identity in Semba and Kizomba. Hot rhythms and swinging bodies characterize a documentary that reveals the will of a people to reinvent itself and spread its roots to the four corners of the world through music and dance.
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Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.