Romería

Memory proves messy in Carla Simón’s Palme d’Or-nominated film about a young woman’s visit to her dead father’s affluent and secretive family.

18-year-old Marina needs a copy of her father’s death certificate to apply for a scholarship to study film. However, his family barely acknowledge her existence. As she arrives in Galicia to track down the missing document, past and present collide and buried secrets come to light.

Carla Simón provides a sequel of sorts to her prize-winning, autobiographical debut feature Summer 1993, which was about a child – like her, and like Marina - whose parents had died of AIDS. Here, Simón weaves the narrative with excerpts from her late mother’s diaries and letters to infuse Marina's story with her parents' lives.