Dry Ground Burning

Date:: 24 Nov 2023

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Age restrictions: 18+

Mato Seco em Chamas
2022, Adirley Queirós, Joana Pimenta

Brazil—Portugal
153 minutes, Portuguese with Russian subtitles

Starring: Joana Darc Furtado, Léa Alves da Silva, Andreia Vieira, Mara Alves

A gang of revolutionary biker girls challenge the Bolsonaro regime in a surprising Brazilian docu-fiction. Russian premiere as part of The Sunset Fired a Hundred Suns programme.

Protest sentiment is boiling over in the Sol Nacente favela: life is getting worse and worse, and the police are humiliating and arresting all over. Feminist biker women are not willing to tolerate this sort of thing: they gang up and carry out a series of raids on oil pipelines to distribute petrol to the poor. Fiction with sci-fi elements in the film is rooted in reality and implemented by means of documentary. All the roles are played by real favela dwellers, and many scenes are filmed at real protests against Bolsonaro.

Shot from Mato Seco em Chamas, 2022

No 2023 movie so far vibrates with the political friction of this metafictional gangster thriller, set and shot in Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil and indebted equally to the legacies of Third Cinema and the Mad Max franchise.

— Adam Nayman, The Ringer

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