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Check out this FANCY DANCE write-up for SQFF in The Seattle Times

FANCY DANCE
Erica Tremblay; 2023; USA; 90 min.

Hard-working queer Jax (Lily Gladstone, Reservation Dogs, Killers of the Flower Moon) takes care of her teenage niece Roki (Isabel Deroy-Olson) on the Seneca-Cayuga Reservation in Oklahoma. When Jax’s sister goes missing, she goes in search of answers, hitting many roadblocks from local law enforcement and their disinterest in finding her.As she tries to protect Roki from the truth, she helps her prepare to dance at the powwow, but instead all hell breaks loose and the two end up on the run. As the mystery unfolds, Jax fights for custody of Roki and faces the difficult realities of a broken colonized system that is not on Jax’s side.

With a direction from award-winning Erica Tremblay (In the Turn, SQFF 2014) of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation, FANCY DANCE is an unforgettably gripping psychological drama that explores a failed justice system and the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women..

CONTENT WARNING: VULGAR LANGUAGE, NUDITY, IMPLIED VIOLENCE, BLOOD, NON-EXPLICIT SEXUAL SITUATIONS, DISCUSSION OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE, DISCUSSION OF RACIAL VIOLENCE