SUMMER 1993

ESTIU 1993

By Carla SIMON

NEW HORIZONS INT'L FILM FESTIVAL / NEW HORIZONS ASSOCIATION - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, POLAND

Drama - Completed 2017


Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - EFM 2017
Best Debut, Best Film Generation KPlus
BAFICI 2017
Best Director
Istanbul IFF 2017
Special Jury Prize
BFI London FF 2017
Special Mention
Fénix Prize 2017
Best Script
Malaga FF 2017
Best Spanish Film
Malaga FF 2017
Best Spanish Film
Malaga FF 2017
Best Spanish Film
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • SPAIN
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 97 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Carla SIMON
    • Synopsis
    • The summer of 1993 is a time of difficult changes. Six-year-old Frida has to go live with her uncle and his family in the Spanish provinces-and this is not just a holiday trip. She has lost both her parents-her mother having died recently following a long illness-and she has to learn to live with new guardians. Carli Simón's first full-length feature film is based partly on her own childhood experiences. Avoiding sentimentalism, the Catalan director paints a complex emotional portrait of a child who is confronted with a wave of contradictory feelings: anger, jealousy, and a growing sense of attachment. With sensibility, she shows the process of experiencing loss, concentrating not on dramatic events, but rather on observations of the seemingly mundane aspects of everyday life. She is helped in this by the charismatic and mature Laia Artigas in the main role. This moving film about the bitter taste of childhood in the shadow of the AIDS epidemic has been warmly received at festivals all around the world. In Berlin, it took home the award for the best debut.