Tatiana Huezo, Jim Stark & Nico Celis on Prayers for the Stolen | NYFF59

Prayers for the Stolen director Tatiana Huezo and producers Jim Stark & Nico Celis discuss their NYFF59 Main Slate selection with programmer Florence Almozini.
In a mountainous town in rural Mexico, young Ana lives with her mother, who works in the poppy fields harvesting opium. The region offers natural splendor and small pleasures for Ana and her two best friends, Maria and Paula, yet the area’s inhabitants are gripped by a fear that is for now incomprehensible to the girls: drug cartels rule the countryside, and they regularly kidnap teenage girls for trafficking, leaving their families bereft of hope or closure. In her delicately wrought yet devastating first fiction feature, adapted from the 2014 novel by Jennifer Clement, Tatiana Huezo charts Ana’s growth from childhood to adolescence, steeping viewers in both the lyrical beauty of youth and the creeping terror of adult reality. Huezo’s film features an extraordinary cast of young actors and intimate camerawork by Dariela Ludlow, breathing naturalism into a world of desperation and despair. A Netflix release.
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[@louismedina8136]

This film was a complete masterpiece. 1 of the best films in the last few years . This needs to win best foreign film for the 2021 academy awards

[@marelytrombone]

Thank you, for bring light to women in Mexico. This movie reflect so much true and pain that happens everyday that are not talked about enough. It pains me how lucky I am that i was born a life of privilege but doesn’t take away that my own blood is been taken lost to the cartel. I hope with this movie we can speak more truth of Mexico’s people and the pain this violence has done to such a beautiful country

[@emmanuellinares3041]

powerful Woman, congratulations Tatiana Huezo.

[@TecOneself]

bello, una pelicula verde, a green movie.