The 2006 American film about a Los Angeles teenager is titled Quinceañera.
Directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, Quinceañera follows Magdalena, a teenager in Echo Park whose expected celebration is disrupted by an unexpected pregnancy. The plot examines family conflict and support while placing a Mexican American coming-of-age tradition at its center.
The film title uses the same Spanish word commonly used for the celebration and its female honoree. That shared title can create confusion between the cultural event and the movie, so references to the 2006 film indicate the specific cinematic work.
Quinceañera received major recognition at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award. Its story is fictional, while the traditions shown in it represent only some practices found in real celebrations.