Lyrical, digressive, and innovative in scope and form, Jenni Olson’s latest 16mm essay film portrays the contemplative urban landscapes of California as a backdrop for reflections on growing up queer and gender non-conforming in Minnesota. This poetic exploration of butch identity and experience explores history, memory, grief, and pining over unavailable women. Tell Me Everything Will Be Okay transcends conventional categories of cinema as it explores vulnerability as a path to self-acceptance, nostalgia as a key to lost wisdom and mindfulness, and storytelling itself as a mode of survival.