The English title of the 2006 Sundance film is Quinceañera.
Written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, the film follows Magdalena, a teenager in Los Angeles whose fifteenth-birthday celebration is complicated by an unexpected pregnancy. The story uses the family ceremony as the setting for questions about religion, sexuality, responsibility, and belonging.
The film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, where it won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in the dramatic competition. Those awards helped bring wider attention to the film and to independent Latinx-centered storytelling.
The title is sometimes written without the ñ as “Quinceanera,” especially in English-language databases or web searches. That spelling refers to the same Spanish word, but the film’s standard title preserves the ñ and the accent mark.