ROMERIA

Carla Simón (born 1986) is a screenwriter and film director who grew up in a small Catalan village. Part of a large family that is a bottomless well of stories, she decided to make films. Graduated in Audiovisual Communication in Barcelona, Carla won a scholarship to complete her master's degree at the London Film School. Summer 1993 (2017) is her autobiographical debut. It won the Best First Film Award and the Generation Kplus Grand Prix at the Berlinale, as well as three Goya Awards, including Best New Director. The film represented Spain at the 2018 Oscars, earned a Discovery nomination at the European Film Awards and earned Carla the Kering emerging Women in Motion award at Cannes. In 2022, Simón released her latest short film Letter to My Mother for My Son, a Miu Miu story, which premiered in Giornate degli Autori at the 79th Venice International Film Festival. Her second feature film, Alcarràs (2022) won the coveted Golden Bear at the Berlinale. It was selected for more than 90 international film festivals and was sold to more than 35 territories. It also represented Spain at the Oscars 2023, obtained three nominations at the European Film Awards and won six Gaudí awards from the Catalan Film Academy. In 2023, Carla won the National Cinematography Award. Romería, Simón's third feature film, had its world premiere in the Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival.