Tha Alkaholiks: X.O. The Movie Experience

Big Pun Live

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BIG PUN LIVE chronicles the life and times of the multi-talented rapper/actor Christopher "Big Pun" Rios. His short but substantial career is studied through live performance clips, behind-the-scenes footage, and interviews with friends and family.

Alan

June 2022 •Portuguese

Alan do Rap was one of the precursors of Hip Hop in Salvador, who to promote his songs would invade the stage of famous hip hop acts and take the mic. Alan's journey shows the difficulties and injustices faced by young blacks from the periphery who try their hand at art and end up clashing with a racist, oppressive, and violent system.

Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

August 2019 •English

The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong over the decades, transformed Western action cinema and inspired the birth of cultural movements such as blaxploitation, hip hop music, parkour and Wakaliwood cinema.

A Casa do Hip-hop - Documentário

May 2024 •Portuguese

Ol' Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys

August 2024 •English

The untold story of the man and the musician who made an immense cultural impact across just a few short years. Having gained exclusive rights to a never-before-seen personal archive shot by his wife alongside access to his closest friends and family, the doc is described by the filmmakers as a culture-defining special that humanizes ODB as a man, a father and a husband like never before. It explores how Russell Tyrone Jones created Ol' Dirty Bastard, a Hip Hop alter ego superhero that would ultimately consume him.

Cypress Hill: Insane in the Brain

April 2022 •English

A smoke-filled journey across the lives and the careers of the groundbreaking, genre-defying Hip Hop group, Cypress Hill. Their unique sound, influenced by their Latin roots and West Coast upbringing, was built on a movement rooted in true authenticity: from cultivating the flower, to smoking it, to rapping about it, their influence is forever burned into the musical landscape of Hip Hop as they continue to stay relevant after 30 years.

Bodied

November 2018 •English

A progressive graduate student finds success and sparks outrage when his interest in battle rap as a thesis subject becomes a competitive obsession.

Virgil Abloh: How To Be Both

February 2023 •English

Film exploring the life of legendary designer Virgil Abloh. It tracks his spectacular ascent from Kanye West’s right-hand man to his role as artistic director of menswear at Louis Vuitton.

Honey

November 2003 •English

Honey Daniels dreams of making a name for herself as a hip-hop choreographer. When she's not busy hitting downtown clubs with her friends, she teaches dance classes at a nearby community center in Harlem, N.Y., as a way to keep kids off the streets. Honey thinks she's hit the jackpot when she meets a hotshot director casts her in one of his music videos. But, when he starts demanding sexual favors from her, Honey makes a decision that will change her life.

Lo mas Disco 1 y 2 / VideoMix 90-91

April 1990 •Spanish

May The Lord Watch: The Little Brother Story

November 2023 •English

May the Lord Watch follows the rise, breakup, and reunion of Little Brother, detailing the vast impact of the preeminent 2000’s rap group.

Here We Come

November 2006 •English

The story of hip hip behind the iron curtain.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

December 2007 •English

Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey perseveres through changing musical styles, an addiction to nearly every drug known and bouts of uncontrollable rage.

52 Blocks: Show and Prove

January 2007 •English

As beautiful and sleek as it is deadly, 52 Blocks merits special conservation efforts as the United States' only existing native martial culture, as it is indeed, the jazz of the martial arts world. Across the African diaspora, there are manifestations of African-derived warrior-dances, capoeira in brazil, mani in Cuba, ladja in Martinique, pinge in Haiti- yet the US offshoot has remained esoteric, because it was suppressed throughout slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow and then obscured in the criminal justice system. The history, interviews and training of the martial arts style that created Breakdance and boxing greats like Mike Tyson.

Beats

June 2019 •English

An agoraphobic hip-hop prodigy and a disgraced former music manager cross paths in Chicago’s South Side and help each other face demons of their pasts.

Dogs Of DC

May 2023 •English

Local legend Paco Panama cements himself as a phenom of DC crank hip hop, attaining record deals, radio notoriety and festival slots while making critical decisions on Southeast DC's Wheeler Road. 30 years earlier, his father, Javier "Panama" Card, navigates power and loss while creating a cocaine empire during the District's "Murder Capital Era." His eventual conviction, after the second-longest criminal trial in DC history, deported him back to 21st century Panama, a place he left during the Noriega era.

Amie & Fannas Striptrip

May 2019 •Swedish

Una identidad en absurdo Vol. 1

April 2011 •Spanish

Guillermo Gómez Álvarez explores the identity politics of Puerto Rico via archival footage from various sources that clash with nine original songs from local independent musicians and a thematic analysis from a psychoanalyst and a historian. From the juxtaposition the absurd becomes coherent and the coherent becomes absurd as Puerto Rican identity is defined and rejected almost simultaneously.

Symphonic Hip Hop 6

November 2021 •French

The 6th edition of Hip Hop Symphonique with Dinos, Benjamin Epps, Doria, Laeti, MC Solaar, Selah Sue at the Radio France auditorium under the artistic direction of Issam Krimi and the orchestral direction of Dylan Corlay. The concert features songs by Erremsi, Elodia, Douboukan and Vinz Slam.

Größer als Hip Hop - Die Geschichte des splash!-Festivals

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