
Carla Simón
Director · b. 1986 · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Carla Simón Pipó is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. Most known for her films Summer 1993 (2017), Alcarràs (2022) and Romería (2025). In 2022 she won the Berlinale Golden Bear for Alcarràs.
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Movie6.5DocumentaryIn the form of a filmed epistolary conversation, two young, experienced filmmakers discuss film, present and past family, heritage and maternity. The personal and profound reflections—which are embodied in the graceful images taken day-to-day—are suddenly echoed by the political emergency of a country.
Movie5.8DramaCarla is pregnant and naked, imitating the poses her mother took when she was pregnant with her. Sunlight filters through the windows. You see pictures in Super-8 of mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, smiling, sewing, reciting poems. Then, a young girl travels from the Sixties to the Eighties, until today, crossing the thresholds of femininity and history, until the meeting with Carla by the Blue Sea of Catalonia and with Manel, Carla's newborn son.

