Levante

Promising Brazilian volleyball player Sofia, 17, is on the brink of a future-defining championship game for her in a gender-fluid volleyball team, for which she has worked tirelessly for. When she is faced with an unwanted pregnancy, Sofia is forced to seek help in a country where abortion is criminalized in most circumstances. She then becomes the target of a fundamentalist group determined to stop her at any cost – but luckily neither Sofia nor her boundlessly loving father and fiercely loyal teammates are willing to surrender to the blind fervor of the swarm.

Propelled by a pulsing electronic soundtrack and spirited performances by its cast, Power Alley articulately explores the issue of female reproductive rights in Brazil and shows the very real barriers to access abortion in this country. It also delivers a powerful message about true friendship and LGBTI solidarity in a situation many women and girls end up having to face alone.