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The Prize (2011)104 minDramaRating 52/100

Under the cloud of a military dictatorship, a young mother and her daughter flee Buenos Aires for the seclusion of a ramshackle cottage along the windy dunes of an Argentine beach. As her mother listens for news from the radio with sad stoicism, restlessly curious seven-year-old Cecilia joins a nearby school overseen by a kindly teacher. A childhood idyll, however, soon becomes contaminated by the general political crisis, as the teacher recruits the class for a patriotic essay contest sponsored by the army‹the very people that may have already disappeared Cecilia's father‹in this superbly acted and engrossingly atmospheric drama about innocence in illicit times.

Cast: Laura Agorreca, Paula Galinelli Hertzog, Viviana Suraniti, Sharon Herrera, Uriel Iasillo, Ludmila López, Chiara Josefina Peralta

Director: Paula Markovitch