DIRECTOR/SCREENPLAY: Carla Simón
PRODUCERS: Valérie Delpierre, Stefan Schmitz, María Zamora
PRODUCTION CO: Avalon
PHOTOGRAPHY: Santiago Racaj
EDITOR: Didac Palou, Ana Pfaff 
MUSIC: Paul Boïgues, Ernest Pipó
WITH: Laia Artigas (Frida), Paula Robles (Anna), Bruna Cusí (Marga), David Verdaguer (Esteve), Etna Campillo (Irene), Fermí Reixach (Avi), Montse Sanz (Lola), Isabel Rocatti (Àvia), Berta Pipó (Tieta Àngela), Etna Campillo (Irene), Paula Blanco (Cesca)​

​AWARDS: Best First Feature, Berlin 2017

REVIEW

“A summer of troubled and troubling experience is reshaped into a delicately crafted, moving filmic memoir by Carla Simón... That the film draws deeply on personal recollection can be sensed in virtually every frame.”

​– Jonathan Holland, Hollywood Reporter

“Catalan director Carla Simón’s award-winning dramatisation of her own experience as a six-year-old orphan adjusting to a new life in the country features the most remarkable and mesmerising child performances in years.

“As enthralling a child’s-eye view as has graced the screen in many a year, Summer 1993 draws us into the new world of six-year-old Frida, transplanted from Barcelona to live with her aunt, uncle and three-year-old cousin Anna in the country. It’s summer and living around this bohemian couple is certainly easy, but adjustment for the little girl is not easy at all. While Anna fastens like glue onto her brand new older sister, Frida’s not so sure she actually needs a sister, let alone a new pair of parents. It’s not long before we deduce that the real parents have died and Frida’s change of scene will be permanent.

Catalan director Carla Simón’s feature debut is autobiographical. Her memory of childish schemes and dreams is acute and bracingly free of sentimentality. The performances she’s drawn from the two children are miraculously unaffected, so when Frida leads her trusting little charge up the garden path you may want to leap into the movie and sort things out. What’s just as piercing is the filmmaker’s appreciation of the kindness, imagination and patience required of her aunt and uncle to convince a defiant little orphan that she was important and loved…”

​– Bill Gosden, NZIFF 2017

FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Carterton
Friday, 11 February, 7.30pm

Hamilton   
Monday, 21 February, 8.00pm

Nelson   
Tuesday, 1  March, 6:00pm

New Plymouth   
Wednesday, 16 March, 6:00pm

Wellington   
Monday, 28 March, 6:15pm

Auckland   
Tuesday, 19 April, 6:15pm
Open to the public (AFS only) – all tickets $10,
on sale now at Academy Cinemas 
(AFS members free)

Queenstown
Tuesday, 3 May, 8.15pm

​Palmerston North   
Wednesday, 18 May, 6:00pm

​Canterbury   
Monday, 13 June, 7.00pm

Tauranga   
Tuesday, 3 November, 6:30pm

Whanganui
Monday, 14 November, 7.00pm

​​Dunedin   
Wednesday, 30 November, 7:30pm

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