Romeria DVD

A film by Carla Simon

2004. Vigo, Spain's Atlantic coast. 18-year-old Marina (Llcia 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 mothers sister, Marina is unfamiliar with the numerous aunties, uncles and cousins on the other side of her family, and is immediately confronted with a past shaped by absence and long-buried emotions, hindering her ambition to reconstruct a coherent account of her father, the love story he had with her mother, and her place in the story. Featuring a luminous central performance from Garcia and stunning cinematography of Galicias rugged coast by Hlne Louvart (La Chimera), ROMERA - meaning pilgrimage - is an intimate, sensual journey into how the past endures through the stories we inherit, shaping who we become.