DREAMS IN NIGHTMARES

New York Premiere
Celebrated director Shatara Michelle Ford (TEST PATTERN) puts their singular stamp on the road movie with this sprawling, unapologetically honest epic across the American landscape. After an unceremonious layoff, Z (Denée Benton, THE GILDED AGE) embarks on a trip across the Midwest in search of a friend that has seemingly disappeared off the grid. Traveling with her two closest friends, the Black queer trio find their priorities tested as shapeshifting threats in each city expose (inter)personal and ideological fractures.

Tender and expansive, Ford creates an ode to chosen family and the radical act of claiming space to dream — and exist — beyond the systems of an increasingly fraught country. DREAMS IN NIGHTMARES shines a fiercely resonant light as it confronts the turbulent concept of America in all its nuanced complexity, leading to astounding realizations.

Screening will be followed by a filmmaker Q&A

 

Part of NewFest Pride

Shatara Michelle Ford

Pin-Chun Liu, Shatara Michelle Ford, Naima Abed

Shatara Michelle Ford

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