Is biology destiny? Spanish film-maker Carla Simón brings to Cannes her very personal and in fact auto-fictional project Romería (meaning “pilgrimage”) – about an 18-year-old girl, arriving in Vigo in Galicia on Spain’s bracing Atlantic coast. She is on a mission to find out more about her biological father who died here of Aids after he split from her mum, who has since died, too, and about her dad’s extended – and very wealthy – family. Romería returns Simón (and her audiences) to the complex and painful subject of her mother and father, which she first approached in her wonderful autobiographical debut Summer 1993…-Guardian

“Carla Simón’s story of a young woman untangling a web of family secrets cements the Galician filmmaker’s aptitude for naturalism while also marking a bold new step towards magical realism.”-Sight & Sound

“This is graceful, quietly intelligent filmmaking.”-Time