Janus Films Takes North American Rights to Carla Simon's 'Romeria'

Janus Films has secured all North American rights to Romería , the new film from Spanish auteur Carla Simón ( Alcarràs , Summer 1993 ). Janus snatched up the feature following its competition premiere in Cannes and ahead of its North American debut at the New York Film Festival.

Romería follows 18-year-old Marina, the daughter of drug addicts who died young of AIDS, who travels to the Atlantic coast of Spain to meet her paternal grandparents for the first time. As Marina navigates this extended family she has never known, she attempts to piece together memories of her parents alongside stories held by relatives, each with their own secrets. Like her debut Summer 1993 and the Berlin Golden Bear winner Alcarràs , Romería is broadly autobiographical, inspired by the di