Powerful AF
The Hip Hop Film Festival presents - POWERFUL STORIES.
The best women directors from the culture bring you stories highlighting the politics, pain and joy of life.
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Khadijah
When a destitute young woman stumbles upon a mosque one day, the leader of the establishment invites her to learn more about the faith. After falling for him, she converts to Islam and accepts his marriage proposal; but when things begin to go awry, she desperately questions if she can preserve t...
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Dark Before Dawn
While Hurricane Lilith taunts the Summers’ residence, Dawn, a younger girl with catastrophic gifts, is forced to calm a storm inside when her mother’s demons come knocking at the door.
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Love in the Matrix
A couple is forced to face reality when their mobile devices run out of battery.
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Sustenance
When Love Calms Anxiety
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Why Am I Here?
A young woman finds herself at a crossroad of daring to pursue her dreams or accept the comforts of security as she searches for an opportunity to propel her to the next level.
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DNA Deceptive Negative Attitudes
What path does Primo take after his queen pin mother and cartel boss father are killed? Follow him as he deals with his past, internal struggles, identity, and who to trust as he claims his throne in the concrete jungle.
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Good People
While adjusting to their new suburban neighborhood, a young couples seemingly good deed makes them the targets of some unknown terror
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The Morning After
A night of two exes reconnecting goes from them taking shots with each other to taking shots at each other.
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Volte-Face
Is it science or revenge? A young African American neuroscientist kidnaps a man she believes killed her mentor so she can conduct an experiment on him to cure H.A.T.E. (HyperActive Temperamental Extremeness).
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Unconventional
A documentary that showcases people of colour and immigrants in Los Angeles. Their journey to success inspires fellow artists to follow their dreams.
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The Expats International
THE EXPATS: INTERNATIONAL INGRAMS chronicles the international adventures and struggles of a black American family living and learning abroad. The edutainment program consists of 20 family-friendly episodes that break stereotypes and normalizes positive images of black people in global spaces; a...
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Safe Spaces
As a man moves from one aspect of his life to another, there is little comfort, success or anything positive or self-affirming to be found. His life comes to be plagued by failure in marriage, his professional life, and things come to a head further when he lands himself in an accident that chang...
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La Vie En Rhonda
A woman struggles with her decision of whether to get involved with a man a lot younger than her, but then takes the risk and gets involved anyway.
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In Between
Written by an incarcerated student, Lisa (biracial) explores a time in her younger life when she had to wrestle with what it meant to be black - what if things went different then?
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All By Design
An ambitious and talented teenager, Karol, wants to accomplish what only 4% of Americans have been able to do and fights to gain her protective mother’s approval.
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10 Years in 40 Seconds
Three kids must adapt quickly and leave childish things behind to survive, when a zombie apocalypse makes its way to Atlanta.
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Blue Laces
After Kiki loses her brother to police brutality, she gains three sisters, but must ultimately decide if her newfound sisterhood is all it's cracked up to be.