Official Trailer for Qasim Basir’s ‘To Stay and Die and Stay’ Detroit Movie

Official Trailer for Qasim Basir’s ‘To Stay and Die and Stay’ Detroit Movie

by Alex Billington
Could 6, 2025
Supply: Twitter

“We’re right here to reside with all the pieces you’ve got bought…” Samuel Goldwyn Movies has revealed an official trailer for To Stay and Die and Stay, a novel indie movie set in Detroit from filmmaker Qasim Basir. This initially premiered in 2023 on the Sundance Movie Competition and can lastly be launched this yr – beginning in restricted theaters this month. Muhammad returns residence to Detroit to bury his stepfather and is thrust into settling his accounts, however Muhammad’s struggles with melancholy and dependancy could end him earlier than he finishes the duty. Muhammad has returned for the funeral, however his personal battle with dependancy, which he hides from the world, drives him to right away fade away into the sultry, late-night, drug-saturated after-hours of Detroit and an equally intoxicating romantic relationship. Probably the most gorgeous modern movies shot in Detroit. Starring Amin Joseph as Muhammad, with Skye P. Marshall, Omari Hardwick, Cory Hardrict, Dana Gourrier, Maryam Basir, and Samantha Basir. I noticed this at Sundance and it is superb – an emotionally affecting, intimate, susceptible movie about rising up and discovering peace. Price a glance.

This is the official trailer (+ poster) for Qasim Basir’s movie To Stay and Die and Stay, discovered by way of Twitter:

Watch an unique trailer for Qasim Basir’s To Stay and Die and Stay

Solely in theaters on Could 16. pic.twitter.com/MMsT6kE2zk

— Letterboxd (@letterboxd) Could 5, 2025

“A movie impressed by struggles I’ve had within the movie enterprise, battles individuals I do know battle on daily basis, the unbelievable tales I do know, and the individuals who have left an enduring mark. To point out Detroit prefer it’s by no means been seen. To speak about dependancy by means of the eyes of black individuals, who aren’t depicted as crackheads. To say to all these struggling after these brutal years of affection and loss that we have collectively had, I needed to inform this story for you.” –Director Qasim Basir

To Stay and Die and Stay follows a movie director (starring Amin Joseph) who returns to Detroit to bury his stepfather & settle his accounts, however his struggles with dependancy & loss could end him earlier than he finishes the duty. As previous and new relationships unfold, he’s pressured to confront the emotional and psychological toll of his previous and the darkish aspect of his metropolis’s vibrant, gritty panorama. To Stay and Die and Stay is written and directed by American indie filmmaker Qasim “Q” Basir, director of the movies Mooz-Lum, Destined, A Boy. A Woman. A Dream., and He Regarded like a Postcard beforehand. It is produced by Nina Yang Bongiovi, Forest Whitaker, Amin Joseph, Samantha Basir, Dana Offenbach, Cory Hardrict, and Omari Hardwick. This primary premiered on the 2023 Sundance Movie Competition a couple of years in the past. Basir’s To Stay and Die and Stay in choose US theaters beginning on Could sixteenth, 2025 this summer season earlier than it is on VOD later this yr. Who desires to look at?

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