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) lives with her mother Alma, who runs a hair salon. When Alma’s free-spirited sister Ruby (Mizan Kirby) arrives from Paris after a long absence, the sisters clash over what constitutes the “proper” direction Rainbow’s life should take.

Pioneering director Ayoka Chenzira’s entertaining coming-of-age comedy-drama (and, astonishingly, her feature debut) highlights a multi-layered Black women’s world where the characters wrestle with what it means to exert and exercise their agency.