I'll Be Gone in June

10/23/2026

Being a stranger in a strange land can be both puzzling and wondrous. So it is when a German high school exchange student spends a school year with a family in Las Cruces, New Mexico, a story chronicled in the debut feature from writer-director Katharina Rivilis. Life in this sleepy desert town is quite a change for Franny (Naomi Cosma), both in terms of the environment and her hosts, the Garcia family, parents Tony (William Lujan) and Eve (Consuelo Flores), daughter Robin (Jazmin Olague), and foster daughter Patty (Kendall Myers). But it quickly becomes apparent that Franny is not particularly happy with her circumstances, even though she attempts to mask her feelings (albeit not especially convincingly). If that weren’t strange enough, however, things get even stranger not long after her