Mexican-Salvadoran filmmaker Tatiana Huezo (The Tiniest Place, Tempestad), will world premiere her debut fiction film Noches de fuego in the Un Certain Regard competition at the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, taking place July 6-17.
Produced by Nicolás Celis (Roma) and Jim Stark (Down by Law) and based on the novel Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement, Prayers for the Stolen / Noche de fuego is set in a mountain town, where corn and poppies grow the girls wear boyish haircuts and have hiding places underground to escape the threat of being stolen. Ana and her two best friends grow up together, affirming the bonds of their friendship and discovering what it means to be women in a rural town marked by violence. Their mothers train them to flee death, to escape those who turn them into slaves or ghosts. They create their own impenetrable universe, but one day one of the girls doesn’t make it to her hiding place in time.
The lineup for this year’s edition of the Cannes Film Festival was unveiled by artistic director Thierry Frémaux, and festival president Pierre Lescure, and has very little Latin American representation. The only title representing Latin America in the official competition is Memoria by Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a co-production with Colombia and Mexico shot in Colombia, and with Latin American actors Daniel Giménez Cacho, Juan Pablo Urrego and Elkin Diaz.
Additionally, the French festival announced the premiere of the Brazilian film Mariner of the Mountains / O Marinheiro das Montanhas by Karim Aïnouz as a special screening and the omnibus film The Year of the Everlasting Storm, described as a love letter to cinemas, and its storytellers, which includes de participation of Chilean director Dominga Sotomayor.
