🇪🇸 ROMERÍA

The latest film from Carla Simón, who previously won the Golden Bear at Berlinale in 2022 for her film 'Alcarràs' which you may remember watching at expat cinema back then? 😃

► ABOUT THE FILM
Marina lost her parents at a young age to addiction and illness. When, as an aspiring filmmaker, she sets out one summer to her roots in Spain’s northwestern coastal region, she finds herself entangled in a web of conflicting memories and heartbreaking discoveries. Award-winning Spanish filmmaker Carla Simón drew on her own experiences for this wistful, sun-drenched portrait.

Does a shared bloodline automatically make you family? Marina was orphaned early in life. At 18, armed with a camcorder, she travels to sunny Vigo, a city on Spain’s Atlantic coast, where she will finally meet her father’s family—whose signature she needs for a scholarship application.

There, she encounters a whole host of uncles, aunts, cousins, and grandparents. The family is warm and welcoming, yet also irritable and evasive, affluent yet distant. As Marina pieces together fragments of the past and tries to form a picture of her parents, she is confronted with conflicting recollections and painful new truths.

Tickets: https://www.lantarenvenster.nl/programma/romeria-expat-cinema-rotterdam/

⏰ The film starts at 19:00 sharp!

► ABOUT THE MEETUP
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Student: €11
Cineville: €0
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