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Dry Ground Burning

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When the flare lights up the night sky, that is how they know the gasoline is ready for sale, the men on the motorbikes who collect the canisters from the fearless Chitara, her sister Léa and their all-female gang, the sample fuel still burning out on the ground. From the watchtower of their makeshift oil refinery, you can see the lights of Brasília in the distance, although Sol Nascente, one of the continent’s biggest favelas, is a world unto itself, a real setting still ineluctably cinematic.

★★★★★ | Read our full Dry Ground Burning review

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What we think

Dry Ground Burning is laden with political sentiment, but also caring of its subjects and their raw intimacy: a surprisingly gentle look, free of all aestheticization.
★★★★★ | Read in full: Dry Ground Burning film review Savina Petkova We Love Cinema

What others think

Here is an astonishing work of survival and resilience from Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós.
Phuong Le The Guardian
Cinema as a radical means of resistance.
Marina Ashioti Little White Lies
In Dry Ground Burning, the future isn’t just female: it is Black, lesbian, profoundly matriarchal.
Ela Bittencourt Little White Lies

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UK release date

02 Sep 2022