PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN / NOCHE DE FUEGO
A film by Tatiana Huezo
(Mexico/Germany/Brazil/Qatar, 2021, 110 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
With Mayra Batalla, Norma Pablo, Memo Villegas.
Mexico’s Official Submission for International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards.
In her devastating and accomplished fiction feature debut, Tatiana Huezo adapts Jennifer Clement’s 2014 novel, nestling a tender, personal coming-of-age story within a terrifying depiction of a world fallen into chaos. In a solitary town in the Mexican mountains, the girls wear boyish haircuts and have underground hiding places. In the impenetrable universe of these young women, magic and joy abound; meanwhile, their mothers train them to flee from the men who turn them into slaves or ghosts. The follow-up to Huezo's masterwork of immersive nonfiction Tempestad is a bravura study in perspective, showing the daily joys and sorrows of the innocent living in the looming shadows of the merciless modern-day drug cartels. A Netflix release.
Tuesday, November 30, 7pm*
*Q&A with director Tatiana Huezo
Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, NY
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