Rethink Rebuild Society invites you to a screening of "Prayers for the Stolen" (2021), Followed by open discussion.
Directed by: Tatiana Huezo
Runtime: 1hr and 51 min
Certificate 15 (please do not bring children under the age of 15 along).
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
On: Wednesday 23 October 2024 at 7pm
Please arrive on time as the screening will start at 7.15pm promptly.
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The film
Life in a town at war seen through the eyes of three young girls on the path to adolescence.
In a solitary 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.
It is an unforgettable story of friendship, family and determination.
There is a sickening image of people at risk from vast forces over which they have no control, attacking them from overhead like capricious gods (the Guardian).
