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LSP and Kino Corner Present!: In the Summers (2024)

October 3, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Join us for our bi-yearly collaboration with UNC Film Studies’ Kino Corner program (tarheels.kinocorner.live.edu) in this live screening of Alessandra Lacorazza Samudia’s debut feature film In the Summers at the Chelsea Theater! Tickets are first come, first served and buy one get one free while supplies last, so bring a friend, classmate, or colleague and join us in our first Kino Corner collaborative film screening of the school year!

Film Description:
“In the Summers explores Latine identity through its characters and how it intersects with fatherhood, addiction, trauma, sexuality and access to opportunity. It’s a story of how we survive our parents, and the beauty of that survival. This is a personal film for me not only because it is inspired by my life but because I want to see complex Latine and Queer characters shown in an honest way.” – Director, Alessandra Lacorazza

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 (played by the iconic 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.

Details

Date:
October 3, 2024
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Website:
https://www.thechelseatheater.org/movie/in-the-summers

Organizers

Kino Corner
UNC Latina/o Studies Program

Venue

Chelsea Theater
1129 Weaver Dairy Road Suite AB
Chapel Hill, NC 27514 United States
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Phone
919-929-8428
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