After winning prizes at Berlin with “Summer 1993” and “Alcarrás,” Spanish director Carla Simón is now in the main competition at Cannes with “Romería,” a deeply personal story about family and memory ...

Laxe, a French-born filmmaker of Galician ancestry, has been steadily confronting that in each of his projects. Mimosas was framed around the delivery of a body to an ancestral resting place ...

Nothing can stop the Cannes Film Festival, not even a suspected act of sabotage. The morning of the fest’s last day, a major ...

Laxe, a French-born filmmaker of Galician ancestry, has been steadily confronting that in each of his projects. Mimosas was framed around the delivery of a body to an ancestral resting place, and ...

In Carla Simón's beautifully shot 'Romería,' a young, aspiring filmmaker reconnects with her lost past in remote Spain.

For me, it’s my family history that led me to filmmaking. Her mom’s diary becomes a central piece of the story. Was that an intentional parallel with Marina’s filming? Yes, absolutely.