Carla Simón

Filmmaker Carla SIMÓN (1986, Spain) graduated from Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona and studied at the London Film School. She grew up in a small Catalan village, as part of an extensive family with a bottomless pit of stories, relationships, feelings and entanglements. Out of these stories grew her autobiographical debut Summer 1993 (2017). It premiered at the 2017 Berlinale, where it received the Best First Film Award, alongside more than 30 other prizes from all over the world. It was selected to represent Spain for the Academy Awards and won three Goyas. Simón also received the Women in Motion emerging talent prize in Cannes in 2018. For the development of Alcarràs (2022), she took part in the Cannes Residency. This film won the Berlinale Golden Berlin Bear and was screened at the New York Film Festival and San Sebastián International Film Festival. In 2025 Simón premiered Romería (2025) at Cannes Film Festival, a CineMart 2021-supported project. The film is an exploration of personal material, drawing from her own family and experiences, and engages with themes of adolescence and trauma that have been central to her artistic practice.

Filmography

(selection) Estiu 1993/Summer 1993 (2017), Correspondencia/Correspondence (2020, short doc), Alcarràs (2022), Romería (2025)

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Wikipedia, Carla Simón