Berlinale: the Golden Bear at “Alcarràs” by Spanish director Carla Simón


Carla Simón, 35, who has filmed with non-professional actors, dedicated her award “to the people who cultivate the land”, stressing the importance of agriculture for society and their work to “fill our plates”. . The director had already received a first film award in Berlin for “Summer 1993” (2017).

The president of the jury, the American director M Night Shyamalan praised the performance of the actors who knew how to “show the tenderness and the fight of a family”, and to highlight “our dependence on the land”. An ode to small Spanish farmers, “Alcarràs” takes place over a summer in a sunny corner of Catalonia.

Tenderness

The film follows the Solé family, who for three generations have cultivated hundreds of peach trees on the land of wealthy landowners. But the latter want to uproot the trees to install solar panels there, and propose to the Solé to adapt to this new situation, or to leave. The head of the family, Quimet, refuses to see his world disappear. The film is both delicate and profound on the issues of the forced modernization of the countryside or the conflict between ecology and ecological transition.





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