Álex comes to a village bar looking for someone. Edu is dancing it like a madman ignoring that someone has come to look for him.
Carla Simón Pipó is an acclaimed Spanish film director and screenwriter born in Barcelona, whose deeply personal work has made her a leading voice in contemporary European cinema.
After losing both of her parents to AIDS at a young age, she was raised by her uncle and aunt in rural northern Catalonia, a profound childhood experience that heavily inspired her cinematic focus on family, memory, and grief.
She studied Audiovisual Communication at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, spent an exchange year at UC Santa Barbara, and earned a master's degree from the London Film School.
Simón rose to international prominence with her brilliant, autobiographical debut feature, Estiu 1993 (Summer 1993), which won the Best First Feature Award at the Berlinale and three Goya Awards. She followed this triumph with Alcarràs (2022), a naturalistic drama featuring non-professional actors that made history by winning the prestigious Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. Her subsequent film, Romería (2025), premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, completing a celebrated thematic trilogy on family dynamics.
Recognized as a major creative force, her growing global influence was further solidified when she was selected to serve as the Jury President for the Short Films and La Cinef categories at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.
"Correspondencia" (2020) / "Después también" (2019) / "Estiu 1993" (2017) / "Las pequeñas cosas" (2015) / "Lipstick" (2013) / "Born Positive" (2012) / "La Marató" (2011) / "Amor amb accent obert" (2011) / "Un piloto llamado La Clínica" (2011) / "Women" (2011)
