With fall film festival season mostly behind us and all eyes moving towards the upcoming awards season, it’s time to look at some of the festival films from this year that have been gaining quite a bit of awards consideration. And in Mexico, the country’s big Oscar hope is the upcoming feature, “Prayers for the Stolen.”

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As seen in the trailer for “Prayers for the Stolen,” the film follows the story of a group of young girls forced to wear short hair and hide themselves from the forces that aim to take them and turn them into slaves or worse.

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One of the few positive things the pandemic has done for movie buffs is left us with an onslaught of leftover 2020 titles held for this year’s fall festival circuit. Case in point: the 59th Annual New York Film Festival. 

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Most all of the major works by revered world cinema directors—many of which have premiered at other fests already— have some kind of presence at NYFF.

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Well, that’s a wrap on the 2021 Cannes Film Festival; 56 reviews and counting (there might be one or two more stragglers to come, but we are basically done). It was a pretty great festival and strong year despite the COVID-19 protocol confusion, those changing rules, and Spike Lee spoiling the Palme d’Or prize early (Spike!!).

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2021 was a strong year, and perhaps that’s not a surprise since films like Wes Anderson‘s “The French Dispatch,” Paul Verhoven‘s “Benedetta,” and other movies basically waited an entire year waiting for the global pandemic to subside so they could premiere under optimal conditions.

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Tatiana Huezo’s eye for lyrical truth has materialized in documentaries like “Tempestad” or “The Tiniest Place,” works that penetrate some of the most tenebrous corners in recent Latin American history with shimmering compassion. Her stance as an acute observer of the people that survive and persevere through tumultuous sociopolitical and economically disadvantaged contexts produces thought-provoking filmic meditations.

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The Salvadoran-born Mexican director has now applied her reflective gaze to fiction for the first time with “Prayers for the Stolen” (“Noche de Fuego“), her interpretation of the novel by Jennifer Clement that fits within her line of interest.

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The Cannes Film Festival is around the corner, which means companies like The Match Factory are dropping trailers for their new films. The latest is “Prayers For The Stolen” (aka “Noche de Fuego“) by Mexican director Tatiana Huezo (‘Tempestad“), which will make its world premiere at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section next month.

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The film centers on a mountain town in Mexico, where three young girls take over the houses of those who have fled.

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