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Sin nombre

Mexico, United States

2009

96 Min
Color
2.35:1
Spanish
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DIR Cary Fukunaga

EXEC Gerardo Barrera, Pablo Cruz, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna

PROD Amy Kaufman

SCR Cary Fukunaga

DP Adriano Goldman

CAST Edgar Flores, Paulina Gaitan, Felipe Castro, Giovanni Florido, Kristian Ferrer, Tenoch Huerta, Luis Fernando Peña, Héctor Jiménez, Diana García

ED Luis Carballar, Craig McKay

MUSIC Marcelo Zarvos

Edinburgh (Rosebud): New Directors Award, Sundance (Dramatic Competition): Best Director, Best Cinematography, Stockholm (Competition): Best Actor, Best Directorial Debut, FIPRESCI Prize, SXSW (Spotlight Premieres), Karlovy Vary (Horizons), San Sebastián (Horizones Latinos)

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Fleeing retaliation from the violent Central American street gang they have deserted, young hoods Casper and Smiley board a northbound train, where they take refuge on top of the moving freight cars and hope for a fresh start in a new country. Dodging authorities and other dangers, the two find a new friend in Sayra (Paulina Gaitan), a Honduran girl also making a run for the American border. Cary Fukunaga directs this exciting thriller. —Netflix

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Cary Fukunaga

Cary Joji Fukunaga (born July 10, 1977) is an American film director, writer and cinematographer. Fukunaga was born in Oakland, California, has lived in France, Japan and Mexico City, and now resides in New York City. His father is Japanese and his mother is Swedish. Fukunaga graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a BA in History in 1999 and attended Institut d’études politiques (IEP) de Grenoble, and New York University in the Graduate Film Program. He has received several grants including a USA Rockefeller Foundation Fellowhship, the John H. Johnson Film Award, a Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship, and a Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Bursary. In addition to English, he is fluent in French and Spanish.

Fukunaga wrote and directed the short film Victoria para Chino (2004) while at NYU, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival and received a Student Academy Award in 2005. He made his feature film debut with Sin Nombre. It has also been announced that… read more

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Film Coach

17Dec11

Sin Nombre = "nameless". Tale of youth who dare to break free of conformities of gang community and a life bound nowhere. Tragedy strikes when one attempts an escape from ruthless "homies." Tough, touching, and sensitive.

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Jennifer Struk

16Nov11

I had no idea this was directed by an American film maker. Interesting. And absolutely brilliant. Heartbreakingly real from what I know of MS13 and the Immigration status between Mexico and the US...my husband made that journey from Mexico City...and believe me not everyone does make it, even when they don't have La Mata after them. This film stayed with me for days. Brilliant acting, excellent film.

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Ben Wheeler

6Nov11

What an incredible journey, a colorful and violent "road" movie. It's seldom that a movie commands your attention and empathy from beginning to end. Every shot is drenched with character emotion. Every frame takes us into the world of immigrants, travelers and gang members- of fathers and daughters and brothers. "Sin Nombre" is an unsettling celluloid poem depicting both suffering and enduring hope.

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Richard Parkins

30May11

The film is tragically brilliant - probably very authentic too.

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pages from a cold island: STARSTRUCK

By Neil Young on August 8, 2009

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SIN NOMBRE Review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
Whenever a new Latin American film gets theatrically released over here (however limited), there’s a sense that it should be something really quite special. Buoyed over the past decade by successes such
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SIN NOMBRE Review

By Twitchfilm.net on July 17, 2010
Whenever a new Latin American film gets theatrically released over here (however limited), there’s a sense that it should be something really quite special. Buoyed over the past decade by successes such
→ read on Twitchfilm.net

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Don't Exactly get it

By MR. Univers​e on January 13, 2010

One of the problems with being a film fan is that you have seen a lot of films so you begin to see films influenced or downright steal scenes, plots and characters from other films you see twists coming…  read review

'The Magician’ wants to see you … Sin Nombre

By jaredmo​barak on January 3, 2010

Not by the hand of God, but by that of the devil. No truer words could be spoken when concerning young Sayra’s journey from Honduras to America in the film Sin Nombre. Here is a movie that lives up…  read review

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By asuraf on May 4, 2009

First time director Cary Fukunaga won Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival for this excellent thriller, shot in Mexico, about a young man escaping north from his brutal street gang after a betrayal…  read review

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