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A lightning rod dispatch from contemporary—and maybe future—Brazil, this astonishing mix of documentary and speculative fiction takes place in the nearly postapocalyptic environs of the Sol Nascente favela in Brasilia. Here, fearsome outlaw Chitara (Joana Darc Furtado) leads an all-female gang that siphons and steals precious oil from the authoritarian, militarized government, while her sister, Léa (Léa Alves da Silva), recently released from prison, is brought into the criminal enterprise.Read More »
Adirley Queirós
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Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós – Mato Seco em Chamas AKA Dry Ground Burning (2022)
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Adirley Queirós – Era uma Vez Brasília AKA Once There Was Brazilia (2017)
2011-2020Adirley QueirósBrazilPoliticsSci-FiIn 1959, the intergalactic agent WA4 is arrested for making an illegal allotment and launched into space. He receives a mission: to come to the Earth and kill the president, Juscelino Kubitschek, in the day of inauguration of Brasília. His ship is lost in time and lands in 2016 in Ceilândia.Read More »