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ROMERÍA

Carla SimóN · 2025 · SPAIN/GERMANY · 112 min

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Summer 2004 on the glistening Galician coast: 18-year-old Marina, a confident, budding filmmaker raised by adoptive parents seeks out her estranged paternal grandparents to obtain a signature required for her to attend university in Barcelona. Armed with a camcorder and her deceased mother’s 20-year-old diaries, Marina drifts into and around the emotionally unruly lives of her uncles, aunts, and cousins, who all orbit an imperious matriarch and superficially welcome her into the fold while evading her quest for answers. What were her parents really like? How did her father die? Not all families have the courage to reveal or reconcile their secrets and their shame; thus Marina—and Simón—fulfill their missions via the power and beauty of the imagination.