Here’s the new trailer for Tatiana Huezo’s Prayers For The Stolen which MUBI will release on cinema screens from 8th April, and then onto the MUBI streaming platform from 29th April.
The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last summer in the Un Certain Regard strand. The feature is a powerful coming-of-age story set in a rural village dominated by the drug trade and the threat of human trafficking.
Here’s the full synopsis:
Loosely adapted from Jennifer Clement’s 2014 novel, it follows the lives of three girls in Guerrero whose childhoods are overshadowed by the forceful and violent presence of the local cartel. The film pivots around Ana (played at different times by Ana Cristina Ordóñez González and Mayra Membreño) and her friends, whose worlds are governed by those wanting to turn them into slaves or ghosts. Trained by their mothers to flee at any moment and forced into extreme measures to evade capture, these young women must learn to abandon their femininity in order to navigate their harsh surroundings.
Watch the trailer for the film below.
