There is a particular kind of grief that comes not only from losing someone, but from never fully knowing them.
In ROMERÍA, a young woman travels home in search of the story of the parents she barely knew. What begins as a practical journey into family history becomes something more mysterious: an encounter with memory, silence, and the parts of the past that families cannot always bring themselves to name.
Directed by Carla Simón, whose SUMMER 1993 and ALCARRÀS established her as one of contemporary cinema’s most sensitive chroniclers of family life, ROMERÍA returns to deeply personal terrain while opening onto a larger history of Spain and a generation shaped by freedom, loss, and silence.
It is a film about the secrets families keep, the shame they struggle to reconcile, and the fragile beauty of imagining a past when the truth arrives only in fragments.
Join us on INSIDE THE ARTHOUSE for a conversation with writer-director Carla Simón about memory, cinema, and making peace with what can never be fully known.
