International Competition

Gasolineiras de Kebradas, a group of women under the leadership of Chitara, refine illegally tapped oil in their own plant. From the watchtower of their makeshift refinery, you can see the lights of Brasília in the distance. The directors entered this world and, together with five women, constructed a fiction that serves as a form of revenge against the Brazilian elite. Blending vivid reality with staged events, this film thinks the territory, the bodies and desires of an entire generation of people who were dislocated, segregated, and incarcerated by the project of a Brazilian nation. Lived-in locations, unstaged protests against Bolsonaro, non-professional actors playing versions of themselves: when you peel away the fiction, there is nothing like real life.