Film Screening: Alma’s Rainbow (1994)

Join us as we host our next screening of Alma’s Rainbow (1994) by Ayoka Chenzira!

This film is 85 minutes and an optional short discussion with the group will follow.

This event will tentatively be hosted at the MLK Library.

Synopsis:
A rediscovered treasure of independent cinema, this incisive comedic drama follows Rainbow Gold (Victoria Gabrielle Platt), a teenager coming of age in Brooklyn, as she looks to two vastly different models of womanhood: her straitlaced mother, Alma (Kim Weston-Moran), who runs a hair salon in the parlor of their home and disapproves of her daughter’s newfound interest in boys; and her free-spirited, larger-than-life aunt Ruby (Mizan Kirby), who has just returned from Paris after a ten-year absence and whose presence shakes up the household. Bursting with the bold Day-Glo colors of nineties fashion, this dazzling feature from feminist filmmaker and animator Ayoka Chenzira grapples with questions of Black women’s sexuality, agency, and self-image from a multigenerational perspective. (Criterion)

Closest Metro will be Virginia Square (7 min walk)