20 Best Indie Movies Of 2016

Anna Rose Holmer’s stunning debut feature starts out as a seemingly simple enough inner city set coming-of-age story before dreamily drifting into surrealist territory – a genre not often mastered but here executed beautifully and eerily.

The film follows young tomboy Toni, played by talented newcomer Royalty Hightower in her acting debut, who boxes at her local recreation centre but finds herself increasingly drawn to the dance team that practices there. After joining the dance team, she discovers its members are falling victim one by one to mysterious seizure-like episodes – the ‘fits’ of the title.

Inspired by real-life cases of communal female hysteria, it’s a powerful and poetic portrait of female adolescence, conformity and social acceptance that has deservedly earned both its maker and breakout star a tonne of Best Director and Best Actress nods on the indie film festival circuit.