Is God Is has landed an early summer release date from Orion Pictures, a division of Amazon MGM Studios .

Playwright Aleshea Harris is directing the big screen adaptation of her acclaimed, award-winning stage play of the same name will open in cinemas May 15, 2026. That’s just around the time of the Cannes Film Festival, although there’s no word yet as to whether the movie will make an awards play, although Orion is known as a home for prestige fare.

Is God Is marks Harris’ feature directorial debut, and stars Kara Young ( Virgo ) and Mallori Johnson ( Kindred ) as twin African-American sisters who were burned badly as babies in a fire that left them with permanent, disfiguring scars. Now 21 years old, they embark on an epic quest for revenge and, and along the way, confront a c

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