“A lightning rod dispatch from contemporary—and maybe future—Brazil.” —New York Film Festival
On the outskirts of Brasília, a gang of women hijack a pipeline to run their own rogue oil rig in the Sol Nascente favela. Dealing gas to “motoboys,” bumping and grinding on a makeshift party bus, and protesting at Bolsonaro rallies, these legendary women dominate the tumultuous landscape. Pimenta and Queirós’s documentary-fiction follows two members of the Gasolineiras de Kebradas in a dystopian contemporary Brazil—a tinderbox of nationalism, economic disparity, militarized incarceration, and climate collapse. 2022, Brazil, in Portuguese with English subtitles, DCP, 153 min.
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Bios
Joana Pimenta (Portugal, b. 1986) is a filmmaker and writer who lives and works in Lisbon, the United States, and Brazil. Pimenta has a PhD in Film and Visual Studies and Critical Media Practice from Harvard University, where she teaches filmmaking and is interim director of the Film Study Center and a filmmaker associated with the Sensory Ethnography Lab. Her short film An Aviation Field (2016) premiered in competition at the 69th Locarno Film Festival and was screened in the Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Rotterdam, CPH:Dox, Rencontres Internationales, Oberhausen, Valdivia, Mar del Plata, Edinburgh, among others, and received the Jury Award for Best Film in Competition at ZINEBI 58 (2016).
Adirley Queirós (Brazil, b. 1970) is a filmmaker based in Brazil. His latest films are Once There Was Brasília (2017), which premiered at the 70th Locarno Film Festival, where it received the Special Mention Signs of Life, and White Out, Black In (2014), which was widely screened and won more than 20 awards in Brazil and abroad. Queirós’s work has been screened at Lincoln Center, Museum of the Moving image, the ICA London, and Pacific Film Archive, and featured in publications such as Artforum, Cinemascope, and Cahiers du Cinéma.