Aleshea Harris brings her stage play to the screen with Is God Is, a 2026 drama-mystery that turns a family reckoning into a road movie of reckoning and rage.
What is Is God Is about?
Two sisters, raised apart from the mother who bears the scars of the violence that shaped their family, set out on a journey that starts as a search for answers and hardens into something closer to a mission. As they move from one encounter to the next, the film keeps circling back to a single question: what do you owe the people who hurt the person who raised you? Kara Young and Mallori Johnson anchor the pair at the center of the story, with Vivica A. Fox, Sterling K. Brown, Janelle Monáe, Mykelti Williamson, Erika Alexander, and Xavier Mills filling out a cast that gives the film's stops along the way real weight. The mystery isn't who did what — it's how far the sisters are willing to go once they know.
About the cast
The ensemble draws from theater and prestige television in equal measure, with Sterling K. Brown and Janelle Monáe among the names lending the supporting roles extra gravity. Kara Young and Mallori Johnson carry the film's emotional core as the two sisters, while Vivica A. Fox anchors the family history the story keeps returning to.
Context & significance
Adapted from Aleshea Harris's own award-winning stage play, the film keeps the source material's blend of dark humor and Southern gothic dread while opening the story out onto the road. It sits in a lineage of American revenge stories that use genre trappings to examine inheritance — what family passes down, and what a person chooses to carry forward or set down.
Watching Is God Is on Ktime
Is God Is streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles available, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow the sisters' journey in either format. A free K-Time account is all that's needed to start watching; the film's page itself is open to browse without logging in.