selah and the spades

There are many coming-of-age films set in high schools that focus on different cliques: the mean girls, the nerds, the jocks, the theater kids, etc., but what Selah and the Spades dir. Tayarisha Poe makes clear from the first frame is: this is not that sort of movie. The cliques or factions are not a byproduct of the genre, but rather the foundation of the movie.