Music Box Films unveiled the official trailer for In ‘The Summers’, the directorial debut film of Colombian-American filmmaker Alessandra Lacorazza. Loosely based on Lacorazza’s childhood, the coming-of-age film follows two girls over the course of four formative summers on their yearly summer visits to their father’s home in New Mexico.

‘In The Summers’ premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it won several awards including the top prize of U.S. Grand Jury Prize Dramatic award. The film was also screened at the 2024 Miami Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival.

Starring in the independent film are Grammy-winning Puerto Rican rapper Residente/René Pérez, Sasha Calle, Lio Mehiel, Emma Ramos, Leslie Grace, and Sharlene Cruz.

Release Date

Directed by Alessandra Lacorazza, ‘In The Summers’ opens in US theaters on September 20, 2024.

Synopsis

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. Lovers come and go, the backyard goes to seed, but the idea of home remains knotty and elusive.

This powerful and deeply personal directorial debut from Alessandra Lacorazza offers a nuanced study of young people questioning their place within their families, their communities, and their identities.

Winner of the US Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, In The Summers proves both an emotional capsule of growing up within a fragmented family and a love letter to the resilience needed to survive.

Reviews

Abe Friedtanzer in a Cinema Daily US review gave the film a B+ score, writing, “This is a story of family love that manifests in a number of sometimes productive ways, raw, honest, and quite poignant in its exploration of the evolution of relationships and the staying power of connection.”

Esther Zuckerman in an IndieWire review also praised the film, giving it a score of ‘B’, writing, “Because of this attention to the environment that shapes these hot days, In the Summers is brimming full of its characters’ internal aches rendered elegantly across time.”

Official Trailer

Watch the official trailer for ‘In The Summers’.