The English title of the 2006 Sundance-winning film is Quinceañera.
The film keeps the Spanish word as its title because the quinceañera celebration is central to the plot and to the characters’ community. It follows Magdalena, a Mexican-American teenager in Los Angeles whose plans for her fifteenth birthday are disrupted by family developments.
Quinceañera premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006 and won both the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award. Its recognition helped establish it as a prominent independent film about Latino life in the United States.
The film’s title is sometimes written without the ñ in English-language databases, but the standard title is Quinceañera. It should not be confused with general articles describing the cultural tradition itself.