Horizon
Dry Ground Burning
Joana PIMENTA, Adirley QUEIRÓS Brazil, Portugal 153 mins M18 (Some Mature Content and Course Language) Southeast Asian Premiere
FILM SYNOPSIS
A radical sisterhood of oil pirates fights for economic independence and community in this hybrid stunner set in a Brazilian favela.
Liquid gold sleeps beneath the ground Chitara stands on, and so she hijacks the oil pipelines, roping her sisters into her rebel gasoline ring. Léa, recently released from a women’s prison, relates these tales of solidarity and precarity: from selling petrol cheaply to motor gangs, to her post-incarceration surveillance.
Shot on location in the Sol Nascente favela and helmed by a cast of non-professional actors who bring their lived realities into the film, Dry Ground Burning achieves a searing, gritty realism the directors envision as an “ethnography of fiction”. Beyond indicting the dystopia of Bolsonaro’s Brazil, this slow-burn docufiction will ignite the far reaches of our political imaginations.
FILM INFO
FILM CREDITS
Joana PIMENTA
Frequent collaborators Joana PIMENTA and Adirley QUEIRÓS have shared credits as co-directors of short film Rádio Coração (2018) and Once There Was Brasilia (2017), where they were cinematographer and director respectively. Dry Ground Burning, their first co-directed feature, won the 2022 Cinéma du Réel Grand Prize.
Adirley QUEIRÓS
Frequent collaborators Joana PIMENTA and Adirley QUEIRÓS have shared credits as co-directors of short film Rádio Coração (2018) and Once There Was Brasilia (2017), where they were cinematographer and director respectively. Dry Ground Burning, their first co-directed feature, won the 2022 Cinéma du Réel Grand Prize.
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