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  • 2023
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 2 h 33 m
  • 2023
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 2 h 33 m

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 constant ...

Directed By: Joana Pimenta, Adirley Queirós

Written By: Joana Pimenta, Adirley Queirós

  • 2023
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 2 h 33 m
  • 2023
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 2 h 33 m

Dry Ground Burning

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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 constant ...

Directed By: Joana Pimenta, Adirley Queirós

Written By: Joana Pimenta, Adirley Queirós

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90
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.
By Beatrice Loayza FULL REVIEW
88
Apr 18, 2023
The film surprises by revealing deeper layers to both its subjects and social commentary.
By Wes Greene FULL REVIEW
80
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.
By Phuong Le FULL REVIEW
75
Apr 25, 2023
It’s a challenge that may ultimately be gratifying for the right audience — just make sure you have a comfy chair.
By Sumner Forbes FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By Marina Ashioti FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Cinco da Norte, Terratreme
Release Date Apr 21, 2023
Duration 2 h 33 m
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Awards

IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
SESC Film Festival, Brazil
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Mar del Plata Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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