Tigers Are Not Afraid (Vuelven) (2017)

Horror, Fantasy, Mystery

Director: Issa López
Writer: Issa López
Starring: Paola Lara, Juan Ramón López, Nery Arredondo, Hanssel Casillas

A haunting horror fairytale set against the backdrop of Mexico's devastating drug wars, Tigers are Not Afraid (Vuelven) follows a group of orphaned children armed with three magical wishes, running from the ghosts that haunt them and the cartel that murdered their parents.

Filmmaker Issa López creates a world that recalls the early films of Guillermo del Toro, imbued with her own gritty urban spin on magical realism to conjure a wholly unique experience that audiences will not soon forget.

Plot summary from IMDb: We are in some northern boarder. Any of them. All of them. Estrella is 10 years old and has 3 wishes: The first one, that her missing mother comes back and it happens. Her mother returns but she is dead and follows Estrella everywhere. Petrified, Estrella tries to scape from her by joining a gang orphaned by violence. Soon she realizes that dead are never left behind and when you are in the middle of brutality and violence, wishes never come true the way you want them to be.

Awards: 5 wins & 1 nomination.
Runtime: 83 min
Not R