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leave with her. Before he can decide, a truck filled with armed men pulls up to the house. Magdalena and Miguel try to escape through the field behind the house but Miguel is found and shot dead. Magdalena is also found but before being shot she realizes the armed man is her son, Jesus. Jesus recognizes her and tells her that, at the bonfire after the assault on the bus, he was forced to kill Rigo with a machete. He tells her that "they caught him and now he can't leave". He asks her to lay low while he and the other armed men leave.
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returned to Ocampo, his hometown, to look for his mom. He finds their old house but no traces of her. Magdalena tries to encourage Miguel, telling him that he reminds her of her own son. They visit Miguel's god-father, however he tells them that the town has been completely ransacked and that "there's no one left and he should leave". Defeated by the idea that his mom might be dead, Miguel is unable to accompany Magdalena in her search. She continues alone and is taken by a canoe to a small community where Alberto lives.
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to the police, fearful that they haven't heard from their sons. The police show them pictures of recently murdered immigrants that have yet to be identified. Chuya recognizes Rigo as one of the victims, however Magdalena doesn't see Jesus in any of the pictures. Hopeful that Jesus might still be alive, and inspired by Chuya's words of encouragement during Rigo's funeral, Magdalena sets up north in search for her son.
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bag-pack in one of the pictures of the victims' belongings. A government official tells her that may of the bodies recovered were badly burnt therefore they can't be recognized through the blood test, but using the bag-pack she identified as evidence he tries to convince her that her son is dead. He hands her documents for her to fill out as acknowledgment of her son's death.
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At a migrant shelter she meets La Regis, a woman that tells her that a bus was stopped a few months back and that most of the passengers were assaulted and murdered. One of the only survivors is an old man named Alberto Mateo, who stayed at the shelter after the attack. Wanting to hear the story from
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Alberto narrates the events the night the bus was attacked. All of the passengers were taken to a bonfire on a field where "the devil" killed them all, including Rigo and her son Jesus. Only Alberto was spared. Though devastated, she returns that night to Ocampo where she tries to convince Miguel to
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Before she can sign them she meets Olivia, a woman who was also at the facility to see if she recognized her son, Diego, among the victims. Olivia tells her that Diego had been missing for four years and that, after a while, she had lost hope that he was still alive so she stopped searching for him.
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Jesus, a teenager from an impoverished region in Guanajuato, is convinced by his friend Rigo to leave their rural town and try their luck crossing the border to the United States. His mother, Magdalena, is left alone in their hometown. After a few months, Magdalena, alongside Rigo's mother Chuya, go
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She arrives at a government facility where the bodies of victims murdered by drug cartels and other criminal organizations are held. They take a sample of her blood to cross-check with the bodies they have in storage. Although none of the bodies match with her blood sample, she recognizes Jesus's
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When the nominees were announced on August 18 2021, the information only mentioned the names of José Ángel Cordero and José Martínez «Josh». On September 25 2021, the name of Mahonrri Laurencio Cordero Ortiz was already included during the ceremony transmission. The causes of this incident are
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Magdalena arrives to find Ocampo has been taken over by armed drug dealers and most of its inhabitants have either fled or been murdered. At Ocampo she meets Miguel, a teenage boy that had been working in the United States the past few years but who was recently deported back to Mexico. Miguel
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However, when recognizing the body, Olivia is told that her son had died a few weeks prior, meaning that he was still alive during most of the time he had disappeared. Olivia encourages Magdalena to keep looking for Jesus. Magdalena refuses to sign the papers and continues with her search.
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and won the Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic and the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Screenplay. It is about the many immigrants who often go missing or die on their journeys. Most of the main characters are mothers trying to find their children.
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Alberto himself, Magdalena asks La Regis where she can find him. She tells her that Alberto lives in a rural community near Ocampo, a small town right next to the U.S. border. Magdalena heads to Ocampo.
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The next day, a distraught Magdalena takes Miguel's body to the authorities. The final shot shows a devil-like figure emerging from a bonfire.
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uses one shattered family's ordeal to offer a harrowing look at the immigrant experience." According to
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of 85 out of 100, the film received "universal acclaim".
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Spanish
Fernanda Valadez
Astrid Rondero
Zapotec
Spanish
drama film
Fernanda Veladez
Astrid Rondero
Sundance Film Festival
Rotten Tomatoes
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weighted average score
63rd Ariel Awards
Best Picture
Best Director
Fernanda Valadez
Best Actress
Mercedes Hernández
Best Supporting Actor
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Ana Laura Rodríguez
Juan Jesús Varela
Fernanda Valadez
Astrid Rondero
Sundance Film Festival
Gotham Awards
Best International Feature
68th San Sebastián International Film Festival
Zurich Film Festival

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