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Spoiler-free premise

A young girl and her sisters live with their strict aunt in Madrid while memories of their parents haunt the household.

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Eight-year-old Ana lives in Madrid with sisters Irene and Maite after the deaths of their parents, under strict aunt Paulina. Present life, memories of mother María, imagined conversations, and Ana's belief in a poisonous powder overlap inside the family apartment.

Why it belongs

Through a child's memory, domestic silence, pop song repetition, and Ana Torrent's grave watchfulness, Cría Cuervos makes dictatorship's aftermath intimate.

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Ana Torrent's still gaze transforms misunderstanding into resistant imagination. Closed rooms, a rooftop, family photographs, a jar of powder, school rituals, and Jeanette's 'Porque te vas' let past and present coexist without markers.

Major award record

Metadata only · zero points in 40/40/20
Cannes1 win1976 · official festival record ↗

Plus 1 additional win

No headline-category win to name

Totals include every recorded competitive win. Only Picture or top-film honors, Direction, Screenplay, and lead or supporting performances are named.

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Institutional reference ranks

Sight & Sound—IMDb Top 250—AFI 100—
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Great Cinema Master List scores

Greatness8.9
Engagement8.4
Ease8.1

Spanish · Not Rated
Narrative Feature
Mood: Absorbing & Reflective