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Dry Ground Burning

6.7 153 mins Drama   Crime   Documentary   2023
Cinco da Norte   Terratreme Filmes  
Director(s): Adirley Queirós Joana Pimenta

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.

Casts of Dry Ground Burning

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