Is God Is(2026)
dir. Aleshea Harris
Two sisters. One mission from God: kill their father.
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Twin sisters marked since childhood by disfiguring burn scars are contacted by the mother they believed dead, who reveals their father set the fire that scarred them — and sends her daughters on a cross-country mission to kill him. Adapted from Aleshea Harris's own award-winning play.
Why it’s here
Punk in framing righteous vengeance as a mission handed down by a mother rather than a moral failing to overcome — the film refuses to let "forgiveness" be the default answer to abuse. Pedagogical in tracing how violence passed down through a family can be interrupted, redirected, or repeated, letting the two sisters choose differently from each other.
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