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Mexico’s Oscar-shortlisted Prayers For the Stolen directed by Tatiana Huezo won the FIPRESCI Prize for Best International Feature Film at the Palm Springs Film Festival, which revealed its juried winners Wednesday despite being forced to cancel its 2022 edition. The festival, which had been scheduled to run January…

For director Tatiana Huezo, her debut feature Prayers for the Stolen (Noche de Fuego) was largely a balancing act of telling a coming-of-age story of young girls while also conveying a story of corruption, drugs and human trafficking in the Mexican countryside. "I think definitely one of the biggest challenges in…

Young girls hide from drug cartels in Prayers For The Stolen, Mexico's powerful entry to the International Feature Oscar race. Directed by Tatiana Huezo and loosely based on Jennifer Clement’s novel, the film, which screens at AFI Fest on November 14 and releases theatrically and on Netflix in the U.S. and select…

Netflix revealed the official trailer for the Mexican film Prayers For The Stolen.  Written and directed by Tatiana Huezo, the movie is liberally adapted from Jennifer Clement's 2014 novel of the same name. The film stars Ana Cristina Ordóñez González, Marya Membreño, Mayra Batalla, Norma Pablo, Eileen Yáñez, and Memo…

Mexico has become the latest country to make its submission to this year's International Oscar race, selecting Tatiana Huezo's Prayers For The Stolen. The pic debuted at Cannes this year, receiving a special mention in the Un Certain Regard program. The film was also a multi-award-winner at the San Sebastian and…