MUBI Release The UK Trailer For Prayers From The Stolen

Last week’s MUBI announced they are set to release Tatiana Huezo’s critically acclaimed Prayers For The Stolen. Today they release the UK Trailer for the Mexican drama that was the country’s Oscar submission.

Prayers For The Stolen is a powerful coming-of-age story set in a rural village in Mexico which is an area dominated by the drug trade and the threat of human trafficking. We follow the story through the eyes of three young girls who live in the village that’s surrounded by poppy fields. The adults drown in dread, these girls play games and chant.

This looks intimate and certainly profound, that makes you appreciate life and how grateful you are.

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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.

As much a damning indictment of the hidden evils of an unjust war as it is a sensitive depiction of women living in the crossfire of gang warfare, this is an unforgettable story of friendship, family and survival uniquely told from a child’s-eye-view perspective.

The cast for this one includes Mayra Batalla, Ana Cristina Ordóñez González, Marya Membreño, Norma Pablo, Eileen Yáñez, and Memo Villegas.

You can watch Prayers For The Stolen will be first released in UK and Irish cinemas from 8th April. Then later on 29th April it will stream on MUBI.