# @filmindependent on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DagHVV9Df3I
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/67615781-filmindependent-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-07-07T18:30:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Film Independent (@filmindependent) — https://gondola.cc/filmindependent

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The summer is heating up, and this month’s invitation to cool off at the movie theater comes with a complete menu of indie films. ☀️

Check out the full list of July’s Don’t Miss Indies at the link in bio, and catch select titles on the big screen through our #FiPresents screenings!

✍: Cortney Matz 

#FilmIndependent #ontheblog

‘Night Nurse’

Why We’re Excited: A dark psychological thriller set in a luxury retirement community, where a young nurse named Eleni (Cemre Paksoy, The Affair) is hired for in-home care. Her enigmatic patient, Douglas (Bruce McKenzie, House) is a life-long con artist, running a racket on his elderly neighbors. Eleni is drawn into the scheme, taken with Douglas and his magnetic confidence. As another nurse (Eleonore Hendricks, Uncut Gems) joins the game of deluding senior citizens into believing she’s their granddaughter in distress, they form a cultish throuple around Douglas’s mysteriously failing health and suburban crime spree. 

“I wanted the film to explore that emotional space where being needed can feel like purpose,” filmmaker Georgia Bernstein told The Film Stage, “and how that devotion can gradually become destructive.”

‘They Fight’

Why We’re Excited: The setting for this boxing drama is Southeast Washington, DC, where Slim (Spirit Award nominee Wendell Pierce, Burning Cane) runs a youth recreation center. Fresh out of prison and eager to prove himself to the mother of his child, Walt (André Holland, Moonlight) returns to his old mentor and is given a chance to coach boxing, a sport he used to love. There he encounters neighborhood teens fighting their own trials in life: one parent’s terminal illness and another’s absenteeism. Through the medium of boxing, the underdog bunch rises to their collective challenges while Walt seeks a job and a place to live, struggling to maintain his 3-year sobriety when back pain tests his resolve. 

Based on a true story and a 2018 documentary with the same name.

Screening with #FiPresents July 7!

‘Forbidden Fruits’

Why We’re Excited: The girls working at this mall fashion store are more than just a clique – they’re a coven. Of witches? Perhaps. This witty dark comedy pairs a unique twi

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