ROMERIA (2025) @ Cleveland Cinematheque / Home Bistro

In this semi-autobiographical tale from Spanish director Carla Simone, 18-year-old Marina is about to attend college in Barcelona, hoping to become a filmmaker. Having been orphaned at a very young age, she discovers she is not listed on her father’s death certificate. To apply for a scholarship, she will need her paternal grandparents’ signatures to correct that omission. So, carrying her mother’s diary and a hand-held digital camcorder, she travels to Spain’s Atlantic coast to meet her father’s family for the first time. There she begins to unearth her parents’ buried past. (The film’s title means “pilgrimage”.) Click here for the trailer A “lovely, pensive costal voyage” - Variety “deeply moving not only for its sense of clear-eyed grace and forgiveness, but for the way it evokes the feeling of a budding filmmaker discovering the cathartic power of artistic creation” - Slant Rotten Tomatoes: 91% ========================================================================== Please note that registration for this event closes at noon on the day before the film. ========================================================================== 5:00 MOVIE at Cinematheque/Cleveland Institute of Art, 11610 Euclid Ave, Cleveland Free parking in the lots with "Cinematheque" signs on E 117th Street (accessible only from Euclid). AFTER THE MOVIE: EATS/DISCUSSION at Home Bistro, 12022 Mayfield Road, a ten minute walk from the Cinematheque. On exiting the Cleveland Institute of Art, walk south (away from Euclid Ave) on 116th Street/Circle Drive to Mayfield Road. Turn left on Mayfield, and Home Bistro is a little way up the hill, on the right-hand side of the street, just past Random Road, across from the Church. [Click here for the…