Synopsis
Alcarràs (2022) is a Spanish drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Carla Simón, whose film took the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. Set in the Catalan village that gives the film its name, it follows the Solé family — peach farmers who have worked the same orchard for generations on an informal arrangement with the landowner.
When the old man dies, his heir decides to install solar panels. The orchard will be cleared. What follows is not a single dramatic confrontation but a slow accumulation of anxiety, argument, and stubborn routine. Simón cast non-professional actors from the region, and the result feels less like a film than a season actually lived through — children underfoot, adults avoiding the conversation, work carrying on because stopping would mean admitting what's coming.
The loss here has no villain and no appeal process. That's what makes it land. Stream Alcarràs (2022) online on iFILM.
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