VERSOS DA RUA

Street verses
Brazil
• Rio de Janeiro
• 2025
• 15 min.

Director

Marcos Roza

Script

Dandara Odara, Marcos Roza, Lucas H. Rossi, Kaue Benedito

Production

Marcos Roza, Lucas H. Benedito

Animation

Dandara Odara

Cinematography

Luís Gomes

Editing

Lucas H. Rossi

Art and Costume Design

Dandara Odara

Sound

Dudu Falcão

Sound Track

Pedro Coimbra, Oliver

Cast

Pedro Coimbra, Rdx, Carol Dall Farra, Kaue Benedito

Production Company

Alecrim Filmes

Versos da Rua portrays the growing poetry movement in Rio de Janeiro, taking over streets, squares, and public spaces with poetry battles, rhymes, and cultural gatherings. The short film follows poets Pedro Coimbra, RDX, Kaue Benedito, and Carol Dall Farra in their artistic interventions, presenting spoken-word poetry as a tool for transformation, resistance, work, and income, while reaffirming the territory as a site of knowledge production and Black protagonism.

TIMES

Nov 7 • 15:00 Cine Humberto Mauro

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