Dir. Janicza Bravo
90 mins | 2020 | USA
Taylour Paige, Riley Keough, Nicholas Braun

SHOWING TIMES:

• Fri 3 Sep: 8pm
• Sat 4 Sep: 2pm
• Sun 5 Sep: 1pm
• Tue 7 Sep: 5pm

‘Wanna hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out???????? It’s kind of long but full of suspense.’

Inspired by a stranger than fiction twitter thread from 2015 Zola follows the odyssey of one A’Ziah King, aka Zola. Zola, a Detroit waitress, strikes up a new friendship with a customer, Stefani (Riley Keough, AMERICAN HONEY, MAD MAX FURY ROAD) who seduces her to join a weekend of dancing and partying in Florida.

What at first seems like a glamorous trip rapidly transforms into a 48-hour journey involving a nameless pimp, an idiot boyfriend, some Tampa gangsters and other unexpected adventures in this wild tale. With a bittersweet synth score from Mica Levi (Under the Skin) this is a vivid declaration of intent from an exciting new filmmaker.

Written and directed by the prolific Janicza Bravo ZOLA is an ultra slick thriller, which brings dazzling cinematic life to a now iconic series of viral, uproarious tweets.

TRIPLE F-RATED:

Directed by a woman, written by a woman and starring a significant woman.

F-Rating is a new rating for films directed by women, written by women and/or with significant female characters on screen, in their own right. Find out more here >>

VENUE: STUDIO 74, EXETER PHOENIX

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