Dry Ground Burning

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.

• Adirley QueirósWriter
• Joana PimentaWriter
• Joana PimentaDirector
• Adirley QueirósDirector

• Léa Alves da SilvaLéa
• Joana Darc FurtadoChitara
• Andreia VieiraCast
• Gleide FirminoCast
• Mara AlvesCast
• Débora AlencarCast