Alma's Rainbow

Ayoka Chenzira’s vital coming-of-age comedy about three Black women living in Brooklyn learning to embrace life and exercise their agency.

Teenager Rainbow Gold (Victoria Gabrielle Platt) is entering womanhood and navigating conversations and experiences around standards of beauty, self-image, and the rights Black women have over their bodies. She lives with her strait-laced mother Alma Gold (Kim Weston-Moran), who runs a hair salon from their home. When Alma’s free-spirited sister Ruby (Mizan Kirby) arrives from Paris, the sisters clash over what constitutes the “proper” direction Rainbow’s life should take. Alma has fooled herself into believing she has no need of male companionship and advises her daughter to follow her example, whilst Ruby encourages both her niece and her sister to embrace life – and love – fully and joyfully.

Ayoka Chenzira’s entertaining coming-of-age comedy-drama highlights a multi-layered Black women’s world where the characters wrestle with what it means to exert and exercise their agency.