salão de baile this is ballroom

Creating your own spaces, inventing your own rules, expressing yourself freely, absolutely, dizzyingly: the essence of voguing and its ballrooms. Here, in Rio de Janeiro and its surroundings, many non-white LGBTQI+ people go beyond the repressive society in which they live. The filmmaker duo takes their camera and delves into the heart of the Brazilian scene: bodies, dances, skin colors, clothes, movements, and expressions, alongside powerful testimonies. Words shape sensitive portraits, codes are deciphered, the music drives the production. It’s fire! Rio is burning!