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For many young Mexican women of poor backgrounds, the traditional coming-out party when they turn 15 represents the passage from girlhood to womanhood. In a severe social and economic context, where the fathers go off to work in the United States and where young girls often find themselves prematurely pregnant, this fete amounts to a magical aside, like a fairy tale. Tania, Nadxiely and the young girls of the Instituto de la Juventud await the day when they in turn can live the illusion of being a princess. Their family’s financial sacrifice is equal to the importance given this celebration: one could do without a roughcast house facade or a car, but not this chance to dream, even if it lasts no longer than a waltz.

Mexico - 2008 - 52 mn - DV Cam • 16/9 • PAL - Colour

Director Laure Egoroff Camera Laure Egoroff, Ianis Guerrero, Jéronimo Zandi Sound Antoine Deyghere Editing Silvia Lucero

Production Ianis Guerrero Artepepan Films, Arenal 659-3, Tepepan, Xochimilco, 16020 Mexico, Mexique Tél : +52 55 5555 1305 Fax : +52 55 5555 1305 E-mail : artepepan@yahoo.com Co-Production Laure Armanet L'Etiquette Productions

Sales Laure Armanet L'Etiquette Productions, Laure Armanet, 7, chemin de Pors An Ney, Le Rhyu Servel, 22300 Lannion, France Tél : +33 (0)6 8021 1360 Fax : +33 (0)1 3976 9475 E-mail : ldarmanet@wanadoo.fr