The Ritual to Beauty

Fri 6/3 – Sun 6/5
Written By Gabe Loredo

La belleza ritual

USA // 2020 // Documentary // LOS SHORTS

PHILADELPHIA PREMIERE

LOLA AWARD NOMINEE

 
A mother is sitting on a chair and her daughter is sitting on the floor, with her arms crossed on her mother's lap with floral prints in the background.
The Ritual to Beauty poster; elder woman getting her hair combed by a young woman, while sitting clothed in a bathtub

This is a PHLAFF Team Top 10 Poster Pick ⭐️

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.

Director: Shenny De Los Angeles, Maria Marrone
Producer: Shenny De Los Angeles

Amyra Leon as the Voice of Yemaya and Composer of the film.

Documentary / Experimental
English & Spanish with English subtitles
14 minutes

Screening as part the of LOLA AWARD Shorts Block.

Gabe Loredo
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