Quinceanera

Quinceañera — the Sundance favorite centering on the titular extravagant 15th-birthday celebrations — glimpses the lives of two Mexican cousins (Jesse Garcia and Emily Rios) as they struggle with such issues as pregnancy, sexuality, and gentrification.

EXTRAS A grainy ”homemade” quinceañera video modeled frame for frame on a party that writer-directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland attended; a nostalgic commentary with the stars and creators; a short making-of, which reveals that the pair wrote the gritty, heartfelt script in only three weeks. A-