Directed by Carla Simón

One of contemporary cinema’s most perceptive chroniclers of fractured family bonds, Spanish director Carla Simón draws from her own complex history for this pair of empathetic, delicately observed portraits of girls growing up in the wake of profound loss. Infused with childhood memories, her luminous debut feature SUMMER 1993 is a tender immersion into the world of a newly orphaned six-year-old girl navigating a tangle of confusion after she is sent to live with her aunt and uncle in the Catalan countryside. In the exquisite ROMERÍA, Simón once again revisits the unresolved questions of her own heritage, this time from the perspective of a teenager uncovering the long-buried secrets behind her parents’ lives and deaths.