Three black queer femmes in their mid 30s take a road trip across the Midwestern United States in search of their friend who has seemingly disappeared off the grid.
After an unceremonious layoff, Z (Denée Benton, “The Gilded Age”) embarks on a trip across the Midwestern United States in search of a friend that has seemingly disappeared off the grid. Traveling with her two closest friends, these three queer black femmes find their priorities tested as shapeshifting threats in each city expose (inter)personal and ideological fractures. Tender and expansive, Ford has created an ode to chosen family and the radical act of claiming space to dream—and exist—beyond the systems of an increasingly fraught country.
With her second feature film, which premiered at the Berlinale, director Shatara Michelle Ford puts her singular stamp on the American road movie. “My film,” she says, “is about four dark skinned, queer, Black American, elder millennial femmes; navigating life in America in one of the most politically and ideologically fraught moments in recent memory. It does not get more urgent than that.”
After the film, join us for a talk with Colored Qollective!
