Dee Rees

Porgy and Bess

Dee Rees

Porgy and Bess is a tale set in the slums of Charleston, SC. There in Catfish Row, a disabled beggar named Porgy tries to rescue Bess from her violent lover Crown, and drug dealer Sportin’ Life.

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Kacie Anning, Greg Daniels

Robbie Amell, Andy Allo

In 2033, people who are near death can be “uploaded” into virtual reality hotels run by 6 tech firms. Cash-strapped Nora lives in Brooklyn and works customer service for the luxurious “Lakeview” digital afterlife. When L.A. party-boy/coder Nathan’s self-driving car crashes, his high-maintenance girlfriend uploads him permanently into Nora’s VR world.

Pariah

Dee Rees

Adepero Oduye, Pernell Walker

A lesbian teenager unsuccessfully juggles multiple identities to avoid rejection from her friends and family. Mounting pressure from home, school, and within wears the line between her personas thin with explosive consequences.

Mudbound

Dee Rees

Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke

In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.

Pariah

Dee Rees

Adepero Oduye, Pernell Walker

A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

Boys On Film 9: Youth In Trouble

Grant Scicluna, Stéphane Riethauser

Bailey Maughan, Gharrett Patrick Paon

Youth In Trouble is the ninth edition to Boys On Film, the world's most successful short film series. This compilation features eight complete films: Bretten Hannam's "Deep End" starring Bailey Maughan, Gharrett Patrick Paon, and Denis Theriault; Caru Alves de Souza's "Family Affair" starring Cláudia Assunção, Kauê Telloli, and Ney Piacentini; James Cook's "Together" starring Lucas Hansen, Ben Owora, and Stuart Evans; Carlos Montero's "Easy Money" starring Mario Casas, Ales Furundarena, and Christian Mulas; Grant Scicluna's "The Wilding" starring Reef Ireland, Luke Mullins, and Shannon Glowacki; Dee Rees's "Colonial Gods" starring Cornell John and Said Mohamed; Benjamin Parent's "It's Not a Cowboy Movie" starring Malivaï Yakou, Finnegan Oldfield, and Garance Marillier; and Stéphane Riethauser's "Prora" starring Tom Gramenz and Swen Gippa.

Bessie

Dee Rees

Queen Latifah, Mo'Nique

The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.

Eventual Salvation

Dee Rees

A documentary following the efforts of Earnestine Smith, an 80-year old American, to return to Liberia in order to rebuild her life following the devastation of the Liberian civil war.

An Uncivil War

Dee Rees

Carey Mulligan

A drama about the fight to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

Saint X

Darren Grant, Dee Rees

A young woman's mysterious death during an idyllic Caribbean vacation creates a traumatic ripple effect that eventually pulls her surviving sister into a dangerous pursuit of the truth.

Untitled Dee Rees Horror Project

Dee Rees

Described by Dee Rees as a "black lesbian horror film set in the mountains."

Colonial Gods

Dee Rees

Cornell John, Said Mohamed

A complicated friendship between a young Somali and Nigerian man unfolds against the chaos of gentrification and displacement in the small immigrant community in Cardiff known as Tiger Bay.

The Last Thing He Wanted

Dee Rees

Энн Хэтэуэй, Бен Аффлек

At the turning point of the Iran-Contra affair, Elena McMahon, a fearless investigative journalist covering the 1984 US presidential campaign, puts herself in danger when she abandons her assigned task in order to fulfill the last wish of her ailing father, a mysterious man whose past activities she barely knows.

The Box

Dee Rees

Mary J. Blige

A young imaginative girl wants to stay up past her bedtime...