Emma Barakat

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.

Somewhere In July follows a 10-year-old girl, caught in chasm of a family divided over her father's recent transition into a woman.