Overview
- Janus Films will release Romería in select U.S. theaters beginning Friday, June 26, 2026, following its Cannes 2025 premiere and festival run.
- The semi-autobiographical drama follows 18-year-old Marina as she travels to Vigo with a camcorder and her mother’s diary to seek paperwork and the truth about parents who died of AIDS.
- Director Carla Simón cast street newcomer Llúcia Garcia to play Marina and also stand in for Marina’s mother in 1980s flashbacks, then ran months of rehearsals and gave Garcia the real letters that became the film’s diary.
- Critics have praised the film’s intimate tone and formal devices—voiceover diary, staged flashbacks, camcorder footage and dreamlike sequences—for the way they dramatize memory without melodrama.
- The film frames a broader history of 1980s Spain by confronting heroin use and AIDS stigma, a subject Simón says shaped family silence and that Romería uses to explore identity and partial reconciliation.