PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN
Directed by Tatiana Huezo
Louverture Films is a Co Producer
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Ariel Awards 2022 - Winner Best Film, Winner Best Supporting Actress, Winner Best Adapted Screenplay, Winner Best Cinematography, Winner Best Sound, Winner Best Make-up, Winner Best Special Effects, Nominee Best Director, Nominee Best Actress, Nominee Best Actor, Nominee Best Male Co-acting, Nominee Best Acting Revelation, Nominee Best Editing, Nominee Best Original Music, Nominee Best Art Design, Nominee Best Costumes, Nominee Best Visual Effects
Directors Guild Awards 2022 - Nominee Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-time Feature Film Director
Film Independent Spirit Awards 2022 - Nominee Independent Spirit Award for Best International Film
Satellite Awards 2022 - Nominee Satellite Award for Best Motion Picture, International Film
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2021 - Winner New Generation Award
Palm Springs International Film Festival 2022 - Winner Directors to Watch, Nominee FIPRESCI Prize for Best Foreign Language Film, Nominee Ibero-American Award for Best Ibero-American Film
José María Forqué Awards 2021 - Winner José María Forqué Award for Best LAtin American Picture
Stockholm International Film Festival 2021 - Nominee Golden Eye Best International Feature Film
Chicago International Film Festival 2021 - Nominee Golden Hugo Best Feature, Winner Honorable Mention International Feature Film Competition
Pingyao International Film Festival 2021 - Winner Special Jury Prize, Nominee People's Choice Award
BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Nominee Sutherland Award First Feature Competition
Busan International Film Festival 2021
Athens International film Festival 2021 - Winner Golden Athena Best Feature, Winner City of Athens Award Best Director
Haifa International Film Festival 2021 - Nominee Caramel Award Best International Film
New York Film Festival 2021
Zurich Film Festival 2021 - Nominee Golden Eye Best International Feature Film
San Sebastián International Film Festival 2021 - Winner Horizons Award, Winner TVE Otra Miranda Award
Guanajuato International Film Festival 2021 - Nominee Festival Prize Best Mexican Feature Film
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2021
Melbourne International Film Festival 2021
Cannes Film Festival 2021 - Winner Un Certain Regard Award Special Mention
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: 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, Tatiana Huezo conveys 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, with an unforgettable story of friendship, family and determination.