For the first time a Catalan film director has won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale 2022.
The 35-year-old filmmaker Carla Simón won the award for her film “Alcarràs”, a family drama about the decadence of the rural world.
It was a tribute to the struggle waged by his family and other farmers to remain faithful to the crop and the land, for the constant work to bring peaches to people’s plates.
The film stands out because its subject matter revolves around people’s stories.
The title corresponds to the city where his family lives (uncles, aunts, uncles and cousins): Alcarràs.
It is a town of 9,000 inhabitants located in the west of Lleida, in the region of Segriá, Catalonia, where people live from the cultivation of fruit trees.
The story tells how farmers are now trying to convince their children not to continue with this type of cultivation, since they buy the fruit but at a lower price than what it costs to grow it.
Youthful passion was not enough and the end was clear.
The race for the Golden Bear at the Berlinale 2022
Carla Simón had already started with her great achievements in this competition, when in 2017 with “Verano 1993”, she won the award for best debut feature film of all sections.
He now plans to release Alcarràs in Spanish movie the aters in the spring of 2022 and at the same time has continued to research the history of his maternal family dedicated to artisanal fruit cultivation.
