The Cinematheque

New Restoration

“A gift: a lovely, tactile film with such a nuanced depiction of the ever-shifting tides of mother/​daughter dynamics, overflowing with love and care as much as it is with a vibrant colour palette and gorgeous textures.”

Marina Ashioti, Little White Lies

The Gallery Gachet exhibition Act 3: As Visible as Blood explores how women’s bodies and lives are co-opted into labour and domestication. The experiences of Black women have become an important site to think about and understand how the sociopolitical state of the world is reflected in efforts to own and claim bodies as property. In Alma’s Rainbow, Bronx teenager Rainbow (Victoria Gabrielle Platt) defines herself through dance and music, while her mother Alma (Kim Weston-Moran) worries about her daughter’s changing place in the world. Transforming both mother and daughter as it reveals the labour demanded of them, Alma’s Rainbow rewrites the language of bodily engagement in the African diaspora, finding ways into womanhood that reshape the expectations of Blackness. Ayoka Chenzira’s film moves toward liberation, resistance, and the rejection of the kinds of intimacy designed to erase and diminish Black femme bodies within capitalist structures. —Akojo Film Collective

“The fact that historically so few films have been made about the inner lives of Black women gives Alma’s Rainbow a precious quality, and the feeling that it’s a gem to treasure.” Cath Clarke, The Guardian

Curated by the Akojo Film Collective in conjunction with Act 3: As Visible as Blood, on view at Gallery Gachet through March 14, 2026.