Making its international debut in Berlin, Shatara Michelle Ford’s sophomore feature “Dreams in Nightmares” follows queer Black femmes on an impromptu road trip across the American Midwest in search of a fourth friend who has seemingly disappeared.
Laid off from her job as a creative writing teacher, Z (Denée Barton) spontaneously heads from Los Angeles to New York City to visit college friends Tasha (Sasha Compère) and Lauren (Dezi Bing). A night out leads to a cross-country road trip the following day as they realize none of the group has heard from their friend Kel (Mars Storm Rucker) for a worrying amount of time — what follows is a
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