Starring
Enlightened and tenderly beautiful
— Michael Fox, SF Weekly
Excellent...surprising and subtle...remind yourself, your roommates, your friends and family to see Medicine For Melancholy.
— Aaron Hillis, Premiere.com
Perfectly self-contained, the film is pure art from the first frame.
— D. Scot Miller, San Francisco Bay Guardian
Barry Jenkins' terrific debut feature, Medicine for Melancholy, is an intimate and sociologically astute study of a young African-American couple...remarkable...bold, insightful movie.
— Guy Dixon, The Globe and Mail
Presented by IFC Films | United States | Jan 30th, 2009 | 87 MINS | NR
A love story of bikes and one-night stands told through two African-American twenty-something’s dealing with issues of class, identity, and the evolving conundrum of being a minority in rapidly gentrifying San Francisco-a city with the smallest proportional black population of any other major American city.
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Awards
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Winner, Best Director
Sidewalk Moving Pictures Festival 2008
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Winner, Special Jury Award
Sarasota International Film Festival 2008
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Winner, Audience Award
San Francisco International Film Festival 2008
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Official Selection
Los Angeles Film Festival 2008
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Official Selection
Toronto Film Festival 2008
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Official Selection
South By Southwest 2008
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Official Selection
Independent Spirit Awards 2008
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3 Nominations, Including Best First Film
BFI Times London Film Festival 2008
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