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the ritual to beauty
Nominated for
Best Experimental Documentary
Directed by
Shenny De Los Angeles & Maria Marrone
14' • United States • 2020
English, Spanish
Three generations of Dominican women explore their relationship to relaxing their hair. By conjuring the magic of water and the power of her ancestors, a daughter uses spoken word poetry as an incantation to break the generational curse that has blocked the women in her family from locating where joy lives inside the body.
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