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Outerlands
Emerging Narrative Feature Competition
Sat
30
Sat 30 Aug 6:30 PM
Selling Fast
Event Cinemas, George St
Wheelchair
Close Captioned
General Admission
Unclassified 15+
100 Mins August
Asia Kate Dillon (Billions) and Lea DeLaria (Orange is the New Black) star in this poignant, introspective drama about a cash-strapped non-binary nanny.
Cass (Dillon) juggles work as a nanny, waiter and dealer to make ends meet in San Francisco. After a one night stand with co-worker Kalli (Louisa Krause, Superman), Cass agrees to watch her 11 year-old daughter Ari while she’s out of town. More Peter Pan than Mary Poppins, they bond over a shared love of video games. But when Kalli drops off the grid it resurfaces abandonment issues for both Ari and Cass. Inspired by writer-director Elena Oxman’s own deeply personal journey, Outerlands explores the quiet ache of adulthood through the lens of childhood memory.
Set against the backdrop of growing class inequality in San Francisco, it takes place in the western side of the city previously known as the Outerlands. Backed by a producer team that includes Marc Smolowitz (Political Animals, MGFF17), Lisa Kleiner Chanoff (Fruitvale Station) and Julien Swanson (Oscar-nominee Last Day of Freedom), this soulful portrait of self-discovery deftly interrogates themes of queer friendship, trauma and addiction with nuance and empathy.
Content advisory: this film contains depictions of misgendering, and themes of drug and alcohol abuse.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with producer Marc Smolowitz.
Cass (Dillon) juggles work as a nanny, waiter and dealer to make ends meet in San Francisco. After a one night stand with co-worker Kalli (Louisa Krause, Superman), Cass agrees to watch her 11 year-old daughter Ari while she’s out of town. More Peter Pan than Mary Poppins, they bond over a shared love of video games. But when Kalli drops off the grid it resurfaces abandonment issues for both Ari and Cass. Inspired by writer-director Elena Oxman’s own deeply personal journey, Outerlands explores the quiet ache of adulthood through the lens of childhood memory.
Set against the backdrop of growing class inequality in San Francisco, it takes place in the western side of the city previously known as the Outerlands. Backed by a producer team that includes Marc Smolowitz (Political Animals, MGFF17), Lisa Kleiner Chanoff (Fruitvale Station) and Julien Swanson (Oscar-nominee Last Day of Freedom), this soulful portrait of self-discovery deftly interrogates themes of queer friendship, trauma and addiction with nuance and empathy.
Content advisory: this film contains depictions of misgendering, and themes of drug and alcohol abuse.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with producer Marc Smolowitz.
- Winner – Queer Media Society Award for Best Queer Feature Film, Filmfest München 2025
- Winner – Torino Pride Award, Lovers Film Festival 2025
- Winner – Audience Award for Narrative Feature, Wicked Queer 2025