Sin Nombre

Sin Nombre (2009)

Sin nombre

The greatest sin of all is risking nothing.

Sayra, an Indigenous Latina American teenage girl from Honduras, Central America, 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 Latino American gang members from Mexico, North America who have boarded the same USA-bound train.

Date of release
2009-03-20
TMDB
7.6 / 10 (813)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
Director
Cary Joji Fukunaga

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Mexico
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Sundance U.S. Directing Award: Dramatic

Sin nombre is a 2009 adventure thriller film written and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, about a Honduran girl trying to immigrate to the United States, and a boy caught up in the violence of gang life.

Production

The film was shot mostly in Mexico City. Locations were found there resembling as closely as possible Tegucigalpa and the train station in Tapachula.

The film was also shot in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico. Several extras were actual migrants. Fukunaga said of working with them, "I didn't have to tell them anything—they know how to sit on top of a train."

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