Sensitive film full of feeling , haunting mood-pieces , attractive images and sense of wonder . It is an ode to childhood , a nostalgic trip to the past in which we become children an hour and a half , where everything to be discovered , in which the games were serious things . After her mother's death, in the Summer of 1993, Frida (Laia Artigas), a six-year-old little girl, leaves Barcelona and she has to go house her grandparents (Fermí Reixach) in the countryside . After her father , her mother has just died of a serious sickness . Then , She's cared in by her uncle Esteve (David Verdaguer) and aunt Marga (Bruna Cusí) at an old stone farmhouse in Olot, Girona, both of whom have a three-year old daughter named Anna (Paula Robles) who can become her playmate . As Frida finds out her new environment, located in a mountainous area, close to lush a dense woods . Her new adopted parents prove likable and friendly . For another child less unsettled than miserable uprooted Frida, this would be the most idyllic of stays, in other words a continuous holiday. However , disturbed Frida finding herself hard to forget her mummy and adapt to her new life. The main question results to be if Frida will be able to overcome her troubles . A new family. A new world. Only the end of Summer will tell.
Colorful but a little bit boring picture stars a child prodigy , Laia Artigas as the six-year-old Frida who is sent to her uncle's family to live with them in the countryside , but she has an unexpressed pain which makes her both feel unhappy and behave badly . This is a marvelous ode to childhood plenty of innocence , friendship , cooperation , curiosity , comradeship and innocence . Director Carla Simón shows these important and universal values through child's mind . It is a notorious picture of educational content , including an enjoyable and charming message . Adding a wonderful relationship between the two children and their parents . Being shot on gorgeous locations from Olot, Girona, Les Planes d'Hostales, Les Preses, La Garrotxa, Sant Feliu de Pallerols, Girona,Catalonia, Spain . This film belongs to ¨Children subgenre¨ that achieved splendor in the Seventies and Eighties in which observed the world through the eyes of a little boy or a little girl whose maxim representatives were Lolo Garcia with fims as : ¨La guerra de papᨠby Antonio Mercero , ¨Tobi¨ , ¨Dos y dos, cinco¨ by Josep Luis Comeron , ¨Las fantasias de Cuny¨ and Ana Torrent with films as "Cría Cuervos" by Carlos Saura , "The Spirit of the Beehive" by Victor Erice and ¨The Nest¨ by Jaime de Armiñan .
The motion picture was well but slowly directed by Carla Simón in semi-documentary style . It won several prizes and nominations , such as : Berlin International Film Festival 2017 Winner Best First Feature Award Carla Simón Winner . Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus International , Jury Best Feature Film Carla Simón , Ex aqueo with Becoming Who I Was (2017) , Nominee Crystal Bear Generation Kplus - Best Film Carla Simón . Blogos de Oro 2018 Nominee Palmarés blogos de oro Best Supporting Actor David Verdaguer . Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2017 Winner Best Director International Competition Carla Simón Nominee Best Film International Competition Carla Simón . Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain 2018 Winner CEC Award Best Original Screenplay Carla Simón, Best New Director Carla Simón Nominee CEC Award Best Film Carla Simón, Best Supporting Actor David Verdaguer , Best Editing Ana Pfaff ,Didac Palou , Best New Actress Laia Artigas, Best New Actress Bruna Cusí . CinEuphoria Awards 2019 Winner CinEuphoria Top Ten of the Year - International Competition Carla Simón , Best Screenplay - International Competition Carla Simón Nominee , CinEuphoria Best Sequence - International Competition For the final minutes of the film, Best Ensemble International Competition : Laia Artigas , Paula Robles, Bruna Cusí , David Verdaguer. Cleveland International Film Festival 2018 Nominee Reel WomenDirect Award for Excellence in Directing by a Woman Direction Carla Simón . Días de Cine Awards 2018 wijnner Best Spanish Film Carla Simón . European Film Awards 2017 Nominee European Film Award European Discovery Carla Simón . Feroz Awards, ES 2018 Winner Best Actor in a Supporting Role David Verdaguer , Best Director Carla Simón , Best Film: Drama Carla Simón , Best Screenplay Carla Simón Nominee Feroz Award Best Trailer Miguel A. Trudu. Fotogramas de Plata 2018 Winner Best Spanish Film Carla Simón . Goya Awards 2018 Winner Goya Best New Director Carla Simón , Best Supporting Actor David Verdaguer , Best New Actress Bruna Cusí , Nominee Goya Best Film Inicia Films Avalon , Best Original Screenplay Carla Simón .
Colorful but a little bit boring picture stars a child prodigy , Laia Artigas as the six-year-old Frida who is sent to her uncle's family to live with them in the countryside , but she has an unexpressed pain which makes her both feel unhappy and behave badly . This is a marvelous ode to childhood plenty of innocence , friendship , cooperation , curiosity , comradeship and innocence . Director Carla Simón shows these important and universal values through child's mind . It is a notorious picture of educational content , including an enjoyable and charming message . Adding a wonderful relationship between the two children and their parents . Being shot on gorgeous locations from Olot, Girona, Les Planes d'Hostales, Les Preses, La Garrotxa, Sant Feliu de Pallerols, Girona,Catalonia, Spain . This film belongs to ¨Children subgenre¨ that achieved splendor in the Seventies and Eighties in which observed the world through the eyes of a little boy or a little girl whose maxim representatives were Lolo Garcia with fims as : ¨La guerra de papᨠby Antonio Mercero , ¨Tobi¨ , ¨Dos y dos, cinco¨ by Josep Luis Comeron , ¨Las fantasias de Cuny¨ and Ana Torrent with films as "Cría Cuervos" by Carlos Saura , "The Spirit of the Beehive" by Victor Erice and ¨The Nest¨ by Jaime de Armiñan .
The motion picture was well but slowly directed by Carla Simón in semi-documentary style . It won several prizes and nominations , such as : Berlin International Film Festival 2017 Winner Best First Feature Award Carla Simón Winner . Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus International , Jury Best Feature Film Carla Simón , Ex aqueo with Becoming Who I Was (2017) , Nominee Crystal Bear Generation Kplus - Best Film Carla Simón . Blogos de Oro 2018 Nominee Palmarés blogos de oro Best Supporting Actor David Verdaguer . Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2017 Winner Best Director International Competition Carla Simón Nominee Best Film International Competition Carla Simón . Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain 2018 Winner CEC Award Best Original Screenplay Carla Simón, Best New Director Carla Simón Nominee CEC Award Best Film Carla Simón, Best Supporting Actor David Verdaguer , Best Editing Ana Pfaff ,Didac Palou , Best New Actress Laia Artigas, Best New Actress Bruna Cusí . CinEuphoria Awards 2019 Winner CinEuphoria Top Ten of the Year - International Competition Carla Simón , Best Screenplay - International Competition Carla Simón Nominee , CinEuphoria Best Sequence - International Competition For the final minutes of the film, Best Ensemble International Competition : Laia Artigas , Paula Robles, Bruna Cusí , David Verdaguer. Cleveland International Film Festival 2018 Nominee Reel WomenDirect Award for Excellence in Directing by a Woman Direction Carla Simón . Días de Cine Awards 2018 wijnner Best Spanish Film Carla Simón . European Film Awards 2017 Nominee European Film Award European Discovery Carla Simón . Feroz Awards, ES 2018 Winner Best Actor in a Supporting Role David Verdaguer , Best Director Carla Simón , Best Film: Drama Carla Simón , Best Screenplay Carla Simón Nominee Feroz Award Best Trailer Miguel A. Trudu. Fotogramas de Plata 2018 Winner Best Spanish Film Carla Simón . Goya Awards 2018 Winner Goya Best New Director Carla Simón , Best Supporting Actor David Verdaguer , Best New Actress Bruna Cusí , Nominee Goya Best Film Inicia Films Avalon , Best Original Screenplay Carla Simón .