Adirley Queirós
From Ceilândia, Adirley Queirós transforms the borders of Brasília into material for films that blend memory, political conflict, and speculative fiction.
- Region
- Brasília, DF, Centro-Oeste
- Age
- 56
Authorial vision
In his films, Adirley Queirós explores territory, collective memory, and power struggles, using Ceilândia as a starting point to question the inequalities and boundaries that shape Brazilian society. By combining documentary elements with science fiction, adventure, and unconventional narratives, the director reimagines historical and local experiences without being bound by traditional forms of representation. His creative process also involves collaborating with people connected to the territories and stories he films, creating works in which formal invention becomes part of the political reflection.
Filmography
- Mato seco em chamas
2022 · Film · Drama, Ficção Científica, Crime · Writer & Director · 153 min
In 2013, the Military Police of the Federal District launched a major operation against drug trafficking in the peripheral city of Ceilândia, dismantling a series of illegal networks and arresting sixteen men.
- Era uma Vez Brasília
2017 · Film · Ficção Científica, Drama · Director · 100 min
In 1959, intergalactic agent WA4 is arrested and launched into space. He is given a mission: travel to Earth and assassinate President Juscelino Kubitschek on the day Brasília is inaugurated. But his spacecraft becomes lost in time and lands in Ceilândia in 2016.
- Branco Sai, Preto Fica
2014 · Film · Drama, Ficção Científica · Director · 90 min
In the 1980s, a police raid at a black music dance party on the outskirts of Brasília leaves two men injured, permanently altering the course of their lives. A third man arrives from the future to investigate what happened and prove that society and its mechanisms of repression are to blame.
- A Cidade é Uma Só?
2011 · Film · Docuficção · Writer & Director · 79 min
The satellite city of Ceilândia, in Brazil’s Federal District, is the starting point of the documentary. In the early 1970s, residents were forcibly removed from the area under a promise of urban development that was never fulfilled.
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