SPA26 Romería

SPA26 Romería

SPA26 Romería

This eagerly anticipated drama from writer/director Carla Simón (Summer 1993, Alcarràs) - one of the most acclaimed filmmakers in contemporary Spanish cinema - follows an orphaned teenage girl as she meets her paternal family and reckons with her late parents’ complex and secret history.

2004. Vigo, Spain's Atlantic coast. 18-year-old Marina (Llúcia Garcia) has arrived to meet her grandparents for the first time, seeking their signature on some documents that she needs for a scholarship application. Raised by her mother’s sister, Marina is unfamiliar with the numerous aunties, uncles, and cousins on the other side of her family. She is immediately confronted with a past shaped by absence and long-buried emotions, hindering her ambition to reconstruct a coherent account of her father, her parents’ love story, and her place within it.

Featuring a luminous central performance from Garcia and stunning imagery of Galicia’s rugged coast, Romería - meaning “pilgrimage” - intimately and sensually demonstrates how storytelling can prove a compelling mode of working through one’s elusive past and uncovering universal truths.

“Emotional, politically timely and euphorically moving. A dazzling and magical film, silent and yet deafening.” - EL MUNDO

WINNER
Best New Performer, Gaudí Awards 2026

NOMINEE
Palme d'Or, Cannes Film Festival 2025 - (x6) incl. Best Director, Best New Actress, Best New Actor & Best Adapted Screenplay, Goya Awards 2026

OFFICIAL SELECTION – San Sebastián Film Festival 2025

Spain, Germany

Rating: CTC
Runtime: 114 mins

Spanish, Catalan, French, Galician with English subtitles

Session Times

Eastend Cinemas
Fri, Jun 12:
20:30

Sun, Jun 14:
13:45

Thu, Jun 18:
15:30

Wed, Jun 24:
15:30

Mon, Jun 29:
18:00

Prospect Cinemas
Sat, Jun 13:
20:30

Fri, Jun 19:
18:00

Thu, Jun 25:
13:20

Tue, Jun 30:
20:30

Sun, Jul 5:
19:30

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