Pilgrimage – Cinema Maldà

“Pilgrimage” / Spain: 2025 / Direction: Carla Simón / Actors: Llúcia Garcia, Mitch Martin, Tristán Ulloa, Celine Tyll, Miryam Gallego, Janet Novás, José Ángel Egido, Sara Casasnovas, Marina Troncoso / Drama / 115 min / Original version in Spanish, Catalan, French and Galician / Not recommended for under 16s.

synopsis:
Marina travels to Vigo to meet the family of her biological father, who died of AIDS, like her mother, when she was very young. Through meetings with her uncles, aunts and grandparents, the young woman tries to reconstruct a story about her parents, but they all feel too much shame about the couple’s drug conflicts, something that Marina reminds them of in her presence. It will be the adolescent love story he lives with his cousin that allows him to reimagine his parents and connect with them. In this way, she invents a story, thanks to her mother’s diary, that frees her from the stigma that her family feels for them and fulfills the desire to understand the past… A film about family memory that closes the trilogy of its director, composed by ‘Verano 1993’ and ‘Alcarràs’.

The review says:
“A lacerating poem full of warmth in memory of broken families (…) offers an intimate portrait that is at the same time political and the chronicle of a family tragedy that is also generational, without falling into discourse, tremendismo or romanticization” Nando Salvá: Diario El Periódico