Romería | Review (opens in new tab)

Blood Relatives: Simon Treads Familiar Water with Continued Autofiction After winning the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for her 2022 sophomore film Alcarras, returns to the autobiographical roots inspiring Summer 1993 (2017), her debut feature. The narrative of a young girl who lost both parents to AIDS and is sent to live with relatives blossoms into a teenager’s search for identity in Romeria (an annual religious pilgrimage in Spain). Names and locations are changed with Simon’s r...