Dry Ground Burning

Dry Ground Burning 2023

6.70

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.

2023

White Out, Black In

White Out, Black In 2014

6.50

Shots fired inside a club frequented by black Brazilians in the outskirts of Brasilia leave two men wounded. A third man arrives from the future in order to investigate the incident and prove that the fault lies in the repressive society.

2014

Once There Was Brasília

Once There Was Brasília 2017

5.60

In 1959, disgraced intergalactic agent WA4 receives a mission: to come to the Earth and kill the president Juscelino Kubitschek on the day of Brasília's inauguration. But his ship is lost in time and lands in 2016 in Ceilândia — a Black suburb of Brasilia — on the verge of Dilma Rousseff's impeachment.

2017

Meu Nome é Maninho

Meu Nome é Maninho 2014

1

During the passage of the World Cup of Brazil through Brasilia, we accompanied Maninho, a former professional football player who today works as a street walker, selling bottles of water and flags of the national teams.

2014