Dry Ground Burning

Release Date: 2023-02-23

Overview: 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.

Rating: 6 / 10

Cast

Léa Alves da Silva

as Léa

Joana Darc Furtado

as Chitara

Andreia Vieira

as

Gleide Firmino

as

Mara Alves

as