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PMA Films: Light Attaching to a Girl (with filmmaker Laina Barakat)

  • Portland Museum of Art 7 Congress Square Portland, ME, 04101 United States (map)

SCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM


Jury Prize, AVIFF Cannes

Best Female Director, Best Drama Feature Film, Best Young Actress, Five Continents Film Festival

62 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Laina Barakat. In English.

Note: This film will be preceded by two local shorts: Phoebe Parker’s Fly Girls (4 mins) and Madeline King’s Solnin.

Suffocated by an overbearing father and two older sisters who soak up any attention that comes their way, Clare is desperate to escape. She plans a trip to Iceland by herself where she can experience nature, and make her own decisions for the first time in her life. Light Attaching to a Girl poetically drifts between the interior and exterior life of an adolescent, as she reckons with haunting memories of her childhood even as she takes her first steps into adulthood.

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