By Michelle TrauringShortly after landing in France three months ago, David Nugent finally stepped back into the hallowed screening rooms of the Cannes Film Festival an institution that is, without question, the biggest and most important of its k
Mexico claims pair of Un Certain Regard prizes at Cannes 2 minutes read
By Marta Garde
Cannes, France, Jul 16 (EFE).- A pair of movies with a Mexican director and co-producer, respectively, “Noche de Fuego” (Prayers for the Stolen) and “La civil,” were honored on Friday in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard sidebar competition.
Both pictures explore the collateral damage associated with Mexico’s endemic drug-fueled violence, with the former being told through the eyes of three young girls and the latter focused on a mother’s desperate struggle to rescue a teenage daughter abducted by a cartel.