Watch the First Clip of Carla Simón’s ‘Alcarrás,’ A Title to Track at Berlin’s EFM (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comJamie Lang One of the hottest titles from Spain at this year’s European Film Market, is Catalan director Carla Simón’s sophomore feature “Alcarrás,” the hotly anticipated follow up to her 2017 debut “Summer 1993.” There, Paris-based MK2 Films will be talking to interested buyers of the recently-finished arthouse entry.
To mark the occasion, the sales company has given Variety access to an early clip.A smash hit with critics and festivals alike, Simón’s autobiographical debut “Summer 1993” won the Best First Feature Award and the Generation Kplus Grand Prix jury prize at Berlin in 2017.
The feature was Spain’s 2018 Oscars submission, nominated for the EFA Discovery Award and won three Spanish Academy Goya awards including best new director.
Carla Simón also received the Women in Motion Emerging Talent Award at Cannes 2018. Less autobiographical, although still deeply rooted in Simón’s own background, “Alcarràs” turns on a multi-generational family of peach farmers who have worked on the same estate in a small village located in Lleida, inner Catalonia, for 80 years.
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