A horrible kidnapping shatters the lives of a brother and sister in austere, controlled Mexican drama “Daniel & Ana,” the feature debut for Mexican shorts and commercials helmer Michel Franco.

Fortissimo Films has bought international distribution rights (excluding Mexico and Spain) to the upcoming thriller Daniel & Ana from writer/director Michel Franco. The deal was brokered between ...

Daniel and Ana, brother and sister, best friends. Both are at pivotal, defining moments in their contented lives. Ana is about to be married, Daniel is a gregarious teenager discovering his personal ...

Based on a true story and unfolding, we are told in the film’s opening moments, “exactly as it happened,” “Daniel & Ana” takes a dispassionate look at the aftermath of a particularly heinous crime.

The most disturbing cinematic sequences often owe their ability to shock to an uninflected, matter-of-fact presentation. Michel Franco’s Daniel & Ana revolves around a doozy: Kidnapped, the titular ...

Underground porn is a lucrative criminal trade in Mexico, especially if it involves adolescents. Daniel & Ana places a human face to the trade’s grim statistics by recounting the true-life ordeal of a ...

Daniel and Ana are siblings and good friends. They are both going through pivotal moments in their lives and lend one another mutual support. She is about to get married while he is smack bang in the ...

In Mexico City, an upper-class college student (Marimar Vega) and her younger brother (Dario Yazbek Bernal) are carjacked at gunpoint, ordered into the trunk of their vehicle, taken to a deserted ...