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Sin Nombre
MEXICO · 2009

Sin Nombre

Cary Joji Fukunaga
immigration gang violence coming of age survival redemption
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Synopsis

Sayra, a Native Honduran teenager, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigrate to Mexico and then enter the United States. Sayra's life collides with a pair of Indigenous Mexican and Mestizo-Mexican gangmembers who have boarded the same USA-bound train.

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