A story about a young athlete on a volleyball team, whose members train together, compete together and dream together of a freer future. A film that, on the playground of society, bravely plays with the traditional views on the autonomy of the female body. Let film take you away into discovering your own spirit to resist!
Sofia, a 17-year-old Brazilian volleyball player, is on the verge of a professional career, but her dreams are shattered by her discovery of an unwanted pregnancy. Her new reality places her in the centre of the struggle against conservative circles and the society’s traditional views on the autonomy of the female body. Day by day, Sofia becomes more aware that hard times require fierce playing! But Sofia is not alone. She is part of a team whose members train together, compete together and dream together, daring to challenge the present in order to build a freer future.
Let film take you away into discovering your own spirit to resist!
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Power Alley is the story of a young woman in a volleyball group that trains together, competes together, dreams together, under the guidance of a tireless coach who, above all, is by their side. These are people who together resist and dare to challenge the present to build another future, a future in which they are free. /.../ It made no sense in my worldview, nor in my cinema, to talk about abortion or to tell the tragic and individual story of a helpless young woman, a story we have heard a thousand times. My choice was to show this other side, collective solidarity, in which a group of people unite to transgress the laws of a state that does not protect life, that prefers to condemn them rather than give them security.«
– Lillah Halla
