In the Summers
2024, NR, 95 min.
Directed by Alessandra Lacorazza, Starring Residente, Sasha Calle, Lio Mehiel, Leslie Grace, Emma Ramos.

Siblings Violeta and Eva live in California with their mother, but every summer they travel to Las Cruces, New Mexico, to spend time with their loving but unpredictable father, Vicente (René “Residente” Pérez Joglar). Over the course of four formative summers that span adolescence to early adulthood, Violeta and Eva learn to appreciate their father as a person, his flaws and limitations inseparable from his passion and tenderness. Winner of the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.

This article appears in September 27 • 2024.

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