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Teenage Alike (Adepero Oduye) lives in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighbourhood with her parents (Charles Parnell, Kim Wayans) and younger sister (Sahra Mellesse). A lesbian, Alike quietly embraces her identity and is looking for her first lover, but she wonders how much she can truly confide in her family, especially with her parents' marriage already strained. When Alike's mother presses her to befriend a colleague's daughter (Aasha Davis), Alike finds the gal to be a pleasant companion. With a world premier at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and multiple award wins including the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award, PARIAH is an intimate coming-of-age drama exploring identity politics, the search for belonging and chosen family.
86mins (15)
Dir: Dee Rees Prod: Nekisa Cooper
QUEER COGNITION: A Season of Cinema Beyond the Binary is a curated series (May–August 2025) celebrating the complexity, resilience, and radical creativity of queer lives around the world. Spanning decades and continents, the season centres voices that challenge convention, reclaim space, and reimagine identity beyond binaries. Presented in the lead-up to Pride London, Queer Cognition brings together groundbreaking narratives and documentaries that resist erasure and ignite cultural memory, exploring queerness as a living, evolving force, rooted in history and defined by collective creativity.
Programme supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Network, funded by the National Lottery www.filmlondon.org.uk/filmhub.
