Summer 1993 (2017)

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In Carla Simón s autobiographical film, six-year-old Frida looks on as the last objects from her recently deceased mother s apartment in Barcelona are placed in boxes. With both her parents now dead from AIDS, she is taken to the Catalonian countryside. There are fears that she may have inherited the disease from her mother, but it transpires she is free of the virus. Although her aunt, uncle, and her 4 year old cousin Anna welcome her, it s only very slowly that Frida begins to get used to her new home in the countryside, and the idea that her mother is not coming back, and that her new family is permanent.