film
Romería
directed by Carla Simón, Spain 2025, 115'
- A poignant, personal journey to one’s roots—a film that, while set within the circle of a single family, shatters collective shame and denial. Carla Simón takes us to Spanish Galicia to recreate a pivotal summer from her own youth.
- 17-year-old Marina arrives in the town of Vigo to retrieve a document required for a student scholarship. This seemingly trivial bureaucratic task unearths a long-held family secret, serving as a testament to a truth hidden for years and breaking a decades-long conspiracy of silence. Simón proves once again to be a master of portraying the family unit: its hidden structures, vulnerabilities, rituals, and masquerades. The arrival of Marina—the missing link in the chain of memories and generations—activates a suppressed past and ignites dormant internal conflicts.
- The sharp edges of this social drama are softened by the poetic, incredibly sensual visual language of Romería. In this space, different timelines converge, the past—quite literally—comes to life, and fiction is seamlessly interwoven with materials from the director’s private archives.
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