Dry Ground Burning

Directed by Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós

With Léa Alves da Silva, Joana Darc Furtado, Andreia Vieira, Gleide Firmino and Mara Alves

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.