Carla Simón is a Spanish director born in Barcelona, celebrated for tender, autobiographically rooted films examining family, memory, and rural Catalan life. Summer 1993, drawing directly on her own childhood experience of losing her parents to AIDS and being raised by relatives, established her delicate, child's-eye visual perspective and won major prizes at the Berlin Film Festival. Alcarràs, following a peach-farming family's final harvest before losing their land, extended her interest in rural community and inherited loss, and became the first Catalan-language film to win the Golden Bear at Berlin. Romería continued her exploration of family history and personal origin. Simón's consistent, deeply personal focus on family memory and the disappearing rhythms of rural Catalan life has made her one of the most acclaimed new voices in twenty-first-century Spanish cinema. Read more