
A small fight between teenagers and a five hundred euro gift is a shambles. Hakeem's stepfather is furious. He demands that the boys get a new present for his mother. Hakeem sets off with his three Afro-German friends, the "streetagers", as the youngsters in the neighborhood call themselves. On their odyssey through various districts of Hamburg, they develop a high degree of creativity in order to obtain money legally and illegally. What they don't know is that they are being followed!
Initially feeling like a passionate group having a bit of harmless fun with filmmaking, it leads to something sinister enough to leave a mark.
Every movement becomes a question of identity. To become who we are meant to be. In order to reach that we often have to shed who we once were, and that shedding can sometimes be so brutal it’s ungraceful.
Did you know that Disney heroes and villains have kids? Check out the Descendants series.
The 2019 film, Vai, takes us through eight stories across the islands of Oceania. The settings are unbelievably beautiful, the cast is beautiful, the languages are beautiful, and the stories are beautiful…but heartbreaking.