From executive producer Travis Kelce, this 2024 SXSW Audience Award winner is a buddy film about a complicated friendship, a divided family and the complex ways we process grief. Featuring stellar performances from Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales and the great Ed Harris, first-time feature filmmaker Kyle Hausmann-Stokes (a U.S. Army veteran himself) has drawn upon a lifetime of lived experience to deliver one of the most powerful, cathartic, and compassionate films of the year.

MY DEAD FRIEND ZOE is a darkly comedic drama that follows the journey of Merit, a U.S. Army Afghanistan veteran who is at odds with her family thanks to the presence of Zoe, her dead best friend and fellow veteran. Despite the persistence of her VA group counsellor, the tough love of her mother, and the fun of an unexpected love interest, Merit's cozy-dysfunctional friendship with Zoe keeps the duo insulated from the world. That is until Merit's estranged grandfather—holed up at the family's ancestral lake house—begins to lose his way and needs the one thing he refuses... help.