Fairyland (2025)
Director: Andrew Durham Run Time: 116 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2025
Starring: Bella Murphy, Cody Fern, Emilia Jones, Geena Davis, Scoot McNairy
Country: United States, France
Language: English, French
About the film:
After his wife’s death, poet-activist Steve Abbott relocates with his young daughter Alysia to San Francisco in the early 1970s, hoping to live more openly. As Steve navigates coming out, creative ambition, and the bohemian counterculture, Alysia grows up amid the city’s vibrant queer community and evolving cultural landscape. Their bond is tested over time by shifts in identity, generational expectations, and the tragic onset of the AIDS crisis. With love, tension, and memory entwined, Fairyland tracks their simultaneous journeys of self-discovery and reconciliation against a backdrop of change and loss.
About the filmmaker:
Andrew Durham is a Los Angeles–based filmmaker, photographer, and creative producer. A USC School of Cinema & Television alumnus, Durham has collaborated with directors such as David Lynch, Christopher Guest, Wes Craven, and Oliver Stone, and produced early work for Sofia Coppola, including Lick the Star and the Hi-Octane television series. He later turned to photography, shooting for high-profile publications like Vanity Fair, The New York Times, French Vogue, and Dior, and taught photography at ArtCenter and Otis. Fairyland is his debut feature film.
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