Dreams in Nightmares

After losing her job, Z (Denée Benton) embarks on a trip across the American Midwest. Together with her two closest friends, she is searching for another friend of theirs who has seemingly disappeared off the grid. In each city, the three queer Black femmes face new threats that test their priorities, causing personal and ideological fractures to emerge. With their second film, Shatara Michelle Ford (Test Pattern) puts their own singular stamp on the American road movie. DREAMS IN NIGHTMARES is an expansive and tender ode to the chosen family and to the radical act of claiming space to dream—and to exist—in an increasingly fraught country.