Official Competition - Festival de Cannes 2025
In order to obtain a civil status document for her higher education studies, Marina, adopted as a child, must reconnect with part of her real family. Guided by her mother's diary, which has never left her, she travels to the Atlantic coast and meets a whole section of her father's family that she doesn't know. Marina's arrival brings back the past. By reviving the memory of her parents, she discovers the family's secrets, the things left unsaid and the embarrassments...
Romeria, in the form of an autofiction, continues to explore what makes Carla Simon's cinema: different families, melancholy, attachment and the quest for identity. Coherent and very well made. - Atmosphères 53
-Le Trianon, Le Bourgneuf-la-forêt
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