Writer-director Lila Avilés’s tender film, told largely through the eyes of a seven-year-old girl, is a minutely observed ensemble piece in which grief and celebration go hand in hand
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Magdalena (Mercedes Hernandez) has lost contact with her beloved adolescent son, Jesus, months after he set out on foot for the U.S. from a rural town in Guanajuato. Determined to find him, Magdalena soon finds herself in over her head, entangled in an expansive crime syndicate and labyrinth of disorienting lies on an increasingly surreal journey to uncover the truth. Winner of two awards at Sundance, and nominated for the Grand Jury (World Cinema - Dramatic) prize.