Academy Award Nominee Lily Gladstone’s next feature film deals with the widespread tragedy of missing Indigenous women by looking at the impact on one small family in the upcoming Apple TV+ film Fancy Dance.

Gladstone plays Jax Goodiron, who assumes temporary custody of her niece Roki (Isabel Deroy-Olson) after the disappearance of her sister, Wadatawi. Jax, living on the Seneca-Cayuga reservation in Oklahoma, is frustrated with the police and federal handling of her sister’s case, but tries to keep up her niece’s spirits, helping her prepare her ‘fancy dance’ for the upcoming powwow.

As if that weren’t bad enough, the authorities give custody of Roki to her grandfather (Shea Whigham), but despite that, the two take a journey to track down Roki’s mother.

According to the movie’s official synopsis, “What begins as a search gradually turns into a far deeper investigation into the complexities and contradictions of Indigenous women moving through a colonized world while at the mercy of a failed justice system.”

Ryan Begay, Crystle Lightning, and Audrey Wasilewski also star in the film by Erica Tremblay in her directorial debut. Tremblay co-wrote the script along with Miciana Alise. Fancy Dance premiered to critical acclaim at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, but unlike Gladstone’s breakout film, Killers of the Flower Moon, the independently-produced Fancy Dance struggled to find distribution until the Apple TV pickup.

Fancy Dance will be available for streaming on June 28th.