Sin Nombre

Student Academy Award winner Cary Joji Fukunaga makes his feature directorial debut with this epic dramatic thriller following a Honduran teenager who reunites with her long-estranged father and attempts to emigrate to America with him in order to start a new life. Inspired by the director's ...more

With just a handful of cinematography credits and a pair of short films to his name, filmmaker Cary Joji Fukunaga makes his impressive feature directorial debut with Sin Nombre, an emotionally involving thriller following a Honduran teen and a marked gangster on their flight toward the Mexico/U.S. border. Harsh yet hauntingly tender, the film succeeds as a well-crafted thriller, an unflinching look at the difficulties of escaping gang life, and a harrowing study of the desperate lengths that ...more