Spanish filmmaker Lucía Aleñar Iglesias's feature debut Forastera scooped the FIPRESCI Prize following its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2025. An expansion of an earlier short, the film stars Zoe Stein as Cata, a teenager whose grandmother passes away during a family holiday on the island of Mallorca. When Cata casually tries on her grandmother's dress she finds her own identity becoming entangled with that of the dead.
Lluís Homar, Núria Prims, Marta Angelat, Martina García and Nonni Ardal also star.
Forastera is in US cinemas from May 29th. A UK/ROI release has yet to be announced.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
Teenager Cata (Zoe Stein) is summering at her grandparents’ house on the Spanish island of Mallorca, swimming in the turquoise Mediterranean waters, teasing her younger sister, and flirting with a Swedish boy. But this vacation idyll is cut short when her beloved grandmother Catalina (Marta Angelat) abruptly dies, hurling each member of Cata’s family into mourning. One day, she slips into her grandmother’s dress and feels an unexpected pull toward her abuela’s clothes and belongings. As the boundary between the living and the departed begins to blur, FORASTERA (Spanish for “stranger”) becomes a quietly suspenseful meditation on memory, grief, and the unseen forces that continue to influence our lives.
