Dry Ground Burning (2023)

• 68%
• 2023
• Crime
• Documentary
• Drama
• Adirley Queirós
• Joana Pimenta
• Léa Alves da Silva
• Joana Darc Furtado
• Andreia Vieira

Just released from prison, Léa returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara, the fearless leader of an all-female gang that steals and refines oil from underground pipes and sells gasoline to a clandestine network of motorcyclists. Living in constant opposition to Jair Bolsonaro's fiercely authoritarian and militarized government, Chitara's women claim the streets for themselves as a declaration of radical political resistance on behalf of ex-cons and the oppressed.