Cinema for Sodomites

Join the Sexploratorium and Rainbow Cult in presenting the Brazilian film: Dry Wind. Banned from film festivals for its sexual content!

Dry Wind (Portuguese: Vento seco) is a Brazilian drama film, directed by Daniel Nolasco and released in 2020. The film stars Leandro Faria Lelo as Sandro, a shy, middle-aged gay factory worker in a small town in Goiás who initiates a casual sexual hookup with his co-worker Ricardo (Allan Jacinto Santana), only to become consumed with jealousy when Maicon (Rafael Theophilo) subsequently arrives in town and becomes a rival for Ricardo's affections.

Jessica Kiang of Variety wrote that "Tom of Finland has a lot to answer for. His gorgeously lurid illustrations of bulging male musculature, tumescent crotches, extravagant mustaches and granite jawlines not only defined the iconography for a joyously irreverent gay subculture that had previously been given little expression, it also established a hypermasc gay dreamboat ideal that derives a lot of its power from its sheer unattainability. That gap, between everyday reality and oiled, leather-daddy fantasy certainly tortures Sandro (Leandro Faria Lelo), the central character of Dry Wind, and if it’s one that Daniel Nolasco’s offbeat, mischievous, explicit debut also cannot quite bridge, damned if it doesn’t have a good XXX-rated go at it."