Queen & Slim

After a first Tinder date, a routine traffic stop escalates into a fatal incident. What follows is a flight across America, as two strangers become symbols of resistance, media attention, and love under extreme pressure. The road serves as both refuge and trap.

Director Melina Matsoukas, known for her visually striking music videos for Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Solange, brings that same aesthetic sensibility to a film that sits somewhere between Bonnie and Clyde and Thelma & Louise. The result is a contemporary outlaw story in which love and politics are inseparable.

Part of Cinema Dépannage, a unique drive-in cinema experience in the Blikfabriek where cult classics and iconic contemporary films hit the road in pursuit of speed, desire, freedom, and escape.