Dancing in the Rain

• Dir. Jaime Lauriano & Eugênio Lima DOC/2023
• 32min / Language: Portuguese/ English Subtitles
• Cast : Gilberto Costa, Walter Balthazar, Laruama Alves, Kiara Felippe, Malu Avelar, Jairo Pereira, Flip Couto, Munique Costa, Jhonas Araújo, Luz Ribeiro, Marcial Macome, Fernando Lufer.

Synopsis: In 1952, the biggest entertainment industry in the West brought the musical Singin’ in the Rain to movie screens around the world. The sequence of Gene Kelly dancing in the rain is a constituent event of visual culture in different parts of the world. The character’s umbrella is one of the key elements of the scene, which includes the arrival of a policeman who mildly reprimands the dancer. In 2018, a 26-year-old black man was murdered by the police in Rio de Janeiro. According to witnesses and the press, the three shots that killed Rodrigo Alexandre da Silva Serrano were fired on the grounds that the officers had mistaken Rodrigo’s umbrella for a gun. Alexandre’s body, a worker and father of two, laid in the rain.