Picked by DUST
Zong
Directed by Hope Robinson · Starring Sidney Cole, Kemi Durosinmi, Elinor Coleman, Celia Manuel · 2022
Cast out of her utopia and sent to Earth, the goddess Maisha discovers an economy built on draining the essence of Black people, and must choose to conform or tear it down.
An Afrofuturist allegory that turns historical exploitation into a bold, mythic sci-fi battle for liberation.
When her paradise is disrupted, a goddess battles a deceitful system to free her people from a social system's life draining conditions.
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