DRY GROUND BURNING [Blu-ray]Just released from prison, La (La Alves Silva) returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half sister Chitara (Joana Darc Furtado), the fearless leader of an all female gang that steals and refines oil from underground pipes and sells gasoline to a clandestine network of motorcyclistsan act of radical political resistance on behalf of ex cons and the oppressed. A provocative portrait of Brazils dystopian contemporary

Rooted in memories of her childhood

from limp romantic encounters to bungled opportunities for professional growth

restoring Almereyda’s brilliant consideration of a singular mind

a young woman who meets and falls madly in love with a drifter

Lost and Beautiful is a ravishing film

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leading Romanian filmmaker Radu Muntean (Tuesday

Paulo Rocha’s debut feature The Green Years

Allah introduces us to a succession of vividly rendered souls who call this island home

In part one

De Humani Corporis Fabrica opens the human body to the cinema

underscoring the difficulty of collective memory