RIFLE

Dione is a mysterious young man living with a family in a rural and remote place in the southern Brazilian plains. The quietness of the region is disturbed when a rich landowner tries to buy the small property where Dione and the family live.

Questions of land ownership come under an intense spotlight in this incisive drama from Davi Pretto, in which local farmers make a stand against the very personification of greed. Positioning its nonprofessional cast amid vivid landscapes, Rifle is an imperative riposte to egregious urbanization.