Carla Simón’s autobiographical jewel — named Best First Feature at the 2017 Berlinale — is an evocative and affecting depiction of childhood that marks the arrival of a major new voice in world cinema. In the summer of 1993, following the death of her parents, 6-year-old Frida is forced from bustling Barcelona to the Catalan provinces to live with her aunt and uncle, her new legal guardians. Country life is a challenge: Aside from the emotional upheaval, the nature that surrounds her is mysterious, if not dangerous. Frida also has a new little sister — younger cousin Anna — requiring her to wrestle with feelings of jealousy. “The exchanges between Frida and Anna, which have the spontaneity and freshness of fly-on-the-wall and which are evidence of Simon’s skill at directing actors, are especially watchable,” says the Hollywood Reporter. “Laia Artigas — playing Frida in a tight-lipped manner that suggests there’s a world of emotion inside her waiting to explode — and Paula Robles are a little sister act that stirs memories of Ana Torrent and Isabel Tellería in Victor Erice’s masterpiece ‘The Spirit of the Beehive.’”