Romería (film)

Romería
Spanish theatrical release poster
Directed byCarla Simón
Written byCarla Simón
Produced byMaría Zamora
Starring
CinematographyHélène Louvart
Edited by
  • Sergio Jiménez
  • Ana Pfaff
Music byErnest Pipó
Production
companies
  • Elastica
  • Ventall Cinema
  • Dos Soles Media
  • Romería Vigo AIE
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 21 May 2025 (2025-05-21) (Cannes)
  • 5 September 2025 (2025-09-05) (Spain)
Running time
115 minutes
Countries
  • Spain
  • Germany
Languages
  • Spanish
  • Catalan
  • Galician
  • French
Budget€3.2 million
Box office$2.1 million[1]

Romería is a 2025 drama film written and directed by Carla Simón. It stars Llúcia Garcia as Marina, a young woman seeking the truth about her deceased biological father.

The film had its world premiere at the main competition of the 78th Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 2025. It was theatrically released in Spain by Elastica Films on 5 September 2025.

Plot

In 2004, an orphaned young woman, Marina, travels to Vigo to seek information about her biological father, who died from AIDS. She meets her uncle and the rest of her family on her father's side, who are reluctant to bring up the past due to shame because of Marina's biological parents' struggles with substance abuse.[2][3]

Cast

Production

Partially inspired by Simón's own life, Romería is a fictionalized retelling of the story of how her parents met and fell in love in Vigo. It also portrays the beginning of their addiction to drugs,[7] with teen protagonist Marina conforming a sort of alter ego of Simón.[8]

The film is an Elastica Films co-production with Ventall Cinema, Dos Soles Media, and Romería Vigo AIE. It received funding from ICAA, ICEC, Xunta de Galicia, Eurimages, Creative Europe MEDIA, FFA, the Madrid regional administration, RTVE, Vodafone, Movistar Plus+, Netflix, 3Cat, ZDF/ARTE, and The Post Republic.[9] It had a budget of around €3.2 million.[10]

Filming began in the summer of 2024 in Vigo.[2] The old centre of Vigo and the Praza de Almeida was used for a scene set during the 2004 Festas do Carmen.[11] It was shot in Spanish, Catalan, Galician, and French.[12]

Release

Prior to the start of production, the film was tentatively planned to be released in 2025.[13] Selected in the competitive slate of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, the film premiered on 21 May 2025 at the Grand Thèâtre Lumiére.[14] Romería received a pre-screening at the Mar de Vigo Auditorium on 26 August 2025,[15] ahead of its Spanish theatrical release by Elastica on 5 September 2025.[16] mk2 Films acquired international sales rights.[9] The film's festival run also included selections for screenings in the competitive slate of the 72nd Sydney Film Festival,[17] in the 'Kinoscope' programme of the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival, in the 'Icons' section of the 30th Busan International Film Festival, in the main slate of the 63rd New York Film Festival (for its North-American premiere),[18][19][20] and in the 'Love' strand of the 2025 BFI London Film Festival.[21]

Piffl Medien acquired German distribution rights. The film was also sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland (Curzon), the Benelux (Cherry Pickers Film Distribution), Italy (I Wonder Pictures), Sweden (Folkets Bio), Denmark (Filmbazar), Norway (Arthaus), Finland (Cinemanse), Switzerland (Cineworx), Greece (Weirdwave), Portugal (Alambique), the Baltic countries (Kino Pavasaris), Poland (New Horizons), Hungary (Vertigo), former Yugoslavia (MCF), Romania (Bad Unicorn), Bulgaria (Beta), Australia and New Zealand (Palace), Japan (Gnome), South Korea (M&M International), Taiwan (Swallow Wings), Indonesia (Falcon), Latin America (Impacto), France (Ad Vitam),[22] and North America (Janus Films).[23]

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 88% of 32 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.3/10.[24] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 74 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[25]

Marc van de Klashorst of the International Cinephile Society rated the film 4½ out of 5 stars, assessing that "it is Simón's one move away from realism that turns Romería into her best film to date."[26]

Wendy Ide of ScreenDaily wrote that Simón demonstrates again a "rare gift for capturing the unpredictable, mercurial beast that is the family".[27]

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian rated Romería 4 out of 5 stars, billing it as a "distinctive, intelligent, sympathetic drama".[28]

David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter determined the film to be "more visually beguiling than intimately involving".[29]

Manu Yáñez of Fotogramas rated Romería 4 out of 5 stars, pointing out that should the film be Simón's best is because of "the small miracles emerging from her impure approach to fiction".[6]

Philipp Engel of Cinemanía rated the film 4½ out of 5 stars, writing that the feeling that remains after watching the film is that the rational and sensible Simón "has let loose to indulge in the most pleasurable poetic escapades".[30]

In September 2025, the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain included the film within the shortlist of three candidate films to represent Spain in the Best International Film category of the 98th Academy Awards.[31]

Accolades

Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Cannes Film Festival 24 May 2025 Palme d'Or Carla Simón Nominated [32]
Sydney Film Festival 15 June 2025 Sydney Film Prize Romería Nominated [33]
Feroz Awards 24 January 2026 Best Drama Film Pending
[34]
Best Director Carla Simón Pending
Best Screenplay Carla Simón Pending
Best Original Soundtrack Ernest Pipó Pending
Best Trailer Miguel Ángel Trudu Pending
Best Film Poster Jose A. Peña, Quim Vives Pending
Gaudí Awards 8 February 2026 Best Non-Catalan Language Film Romería Pending
[35]
Best Director Carla Simón Pending
Best Adapted Screenplay Carla Simón Pending
Best New Performance Llúcia Garcia Pending
Best Original Score Ernest Pipó Pending
Best Production Supervision Elisa Sirvent Aguirre Pending
Best Art Direction Mónica Bernuy Pending
Best Cinematography Hélène Louvart Pending
Best Editing Sergio Jiménez, Ana Pfaff Pending
Best Costume Design Anna Aguilà Pending
Best Sound Eva Valiño, Alejandro Castillo Pending
Best Visual Effects Anna Aragonès, Bernat Aragonès, Alice Rathert, Christian Pundschus Pending
Best Makeup and Hairstyles Paty López, Paco Rodríguez H. Pending

See also

References

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  3. ^ R.V. (2 August 2024). "Carla Simón se viene de "Romería" a Vigo: inicia el rodaje de su nueva película". Faro de Vigo. Prensa Ibérica.
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