Dry Ground Burning

Name: Dry Ground Burning
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Crime, Documentary
Released: April 21, 2023
Duration: 153 min
Rating: 84
Cast: Andreia Vieira, Débora Alencar, Gleide Firmino, Joana Darc Furtado, Léa Alves da Silva

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Grasshopper Film | Release Date: April 21, 2023 | NR

Starring: Andreia Vieira, Débora Alencar, Gleide Firmino, Joana Darc Furtado, Léa Alves da Silva

Summary: Just released from prison, Léa (Léa Alves Silva) returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara (Joana Darc Furtado), 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 constantJust released from prison, Léa (Léa Alves Silva) returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara (Joana Darc Furtado), 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. … Expand

Director: Adirley Queirós and Joana Pimenta

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Crime, Documentary

Rating: NR

Runtime: 153 min

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Beatrice Loayza

Apr 21, 2023

Pimenta and Queirós invent a world in which Brazilian women at the very bottom of the social totem pole take matters into their own hands. They do so without an ounce of fear or self-pity — and in killer style to boot. Read full review

Wes Greene

Apr 18, 2023

The film surprises by revealing deeper layers to both its subjects and social commentary. Read full review

The Guardian Phuong Le

Sep 4, 2022

In a world marred by political hopelessness, Dry Ground Burning literally and figuratively sets the landscape on fire, and out of the ashes there is hope for a new order free from oppression. Read full review

Sumner Forbes

Apr 25, 2023

It’s a challenge that may ultimately be gratifying for the right audience — just make sure you have a comfy chair. Read full review

Marina Ashioti

Sep 3, 2022

Long takes, discursive monologues, slow pans and stylistic shifts allow the directors to forge an inventive cinematic language out of political consciousness; one that eschews the narrative codes of Western cinema, as it blends fiction and documentary, immersion and observation, to provide a multilayered embodiment of marginalised womanhood in contemporary Brazil. Read full review

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