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The trailer for Student Academy Award winner Cary Joji Fukunaga’s feature debut Sin Nombre, which was met with loads of critical praise during its debut at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, was sent over to us this morning by the folks at Focus Features. At Sundance, it earned the Directing Award as well as the Excellence in Cinematography Award. And Erik Davis as Cinematical called it “the sort of too-real-it-hurts story that you simply must enjoy on the big screen in order to feel the film’s beautiful loneliness and share its brilliance with those you care most about.”

Sin Nombre is the dramatic story of two youths who travel tough roads toward emigration to the United States. Sayra (Paulina Gaitan), is a teenager living in Honduras, and hungering for a brighter future. A reunion with her long-estranged father gives Sayra her only real option – emigrating with her father and her uncle into Mexico and then the United States, where her father now has a new family. Casper, a.k.a. Willy (Edgar Flores), is a teenager living in Tapachula, Mexico, and facing an uncertain future. After his gang membership costs him his girlfriend, Willy boards a States-boung freight train, only to come face to face with the gang leader who he is trying desperately to escape from. And as the paths of Willy and Sayra collide, we watch as they struggle to navigate their way to a better life.

Sin Nombre is set to debut in theaters on March 20, 2009. While I did not see it at Sundance, I will be covering it when it plays at SXSW, so stay tuned for a full review coming soon. See the full trailer below.