Summer Solstice (2024)
Director: Noah Schamus Run Time: 81 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2024
Starring: Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Marianne Rendón, Mila Myles, Monica Sanborn, Yaron Lotan
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film:
World Premiere, 2023 Provincetown Film Festival.
Trans man Leo’s life is a jumble of auditions, acting classes, barista jobs, and situationships, all of which he hopes will amount to more. Unexpectedly, Leo’s college best friend, cisgender and straight Eleanor, calls Leo announcing that she’ll be driving through NYC, and offers to pick him up for an impromptu trip upstate. They embark on the weekend getaway, marking their first time spent together since Leo began transitioning. Reunited with new gender dynamics between them, and uncovering problems lurking behind Eleanor’s “well-meaning” façade, Leo and Eleanor navigate how their old feelings towards one another exist within this new context, forcing them both to confront buried secrets and emotions.
“A triumph of sensitivity from the first-time feature filmmaker Noah Schamus”
—Natalia Winkelman, New York Times
A modern twist on the buddy comedy from a queer and trans perspective, Noah Schamus’ debut feature Summer Solstice (2024) is a celebration of friendship, resilience, and coming of age again.
About the filmmaker:
Noah Schamus is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker, passionate about telling stories thatdeepen and humanize queer and trans narratives. Their most recent hybrid documentary short, The Script (2023), premiered at CPH:DOX 2023. Schamus’ feature length directorial debut Summer Solstice (2024) was a recipient of the Panavision New Filmmaker Program grant, was included in the 2021 Outfest Screenwriting Lab, and was selected to participate in US in Progress at the American Film Festival in 2022.
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