Pariah

Director: Dee Rees

2011 / 86min / 35mm

“Rees’s debut feature, a tender coming-of-age story, finds Fort Greene teenager Alike—who is casually out at school but whose sexuality remains a corrosive open secret at home—mesmerized by what she sees at a lesbian club: a pole dancer grinding to Khia; butches and femmes pairing off.”—Melissa Anderson, curator