What is the title of the 2006 film about Magdalena’s troubled quinceañera?

The title of the 2006 film about Magdalena’s troubled quinceañera is Quinceañera.

The independent drama centers on Magdalena, a teenager in Los Angeles whose planned fifteenth-birthday celebration becomes entangled with family conflict and an unexpected pregnancy. The title directly identifies the cultural event around which the story is organized.

Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland directed the film. It received major recognition at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, winning both a Grand Jury Prize and an Audience Award.

Quinceañera is not the same movie as the unrelated 1984 American comedy Sixteen Candles. The two titles are sometimes mentally grouped because both involve teenage milestones, but they have different stories, filmmakers, and cultural settings.