Clara Trischler's second documentary feature, Night of the Coyotes, examines the small Mexican town of El Alberto, where locals stage re-enactments of migrant border crossings for tourists. Unlike typical migration documentaries that focus on life after reaching the US, the film instead looks at the community left behind as it has been hollowed out by years of emigration, framing these staged "night hikes" as both a deterrent exercise and an unlikely tourist draw.

The events, marketed as Caminata Nocturna, recruit residents to play roles including menacing "coyote" traffickers, with participants subjected to mock van rides, intimidation and police interrogations. The review notes the film is observational and largely sidesteps the psychological and ethical questions the re-enactments raise, such as one instance where a woman is casually cast as a rape victim with little warning. Its stronger achievement, the reviewer suggests, is capturing the town's collective grief through the testimonies of those deported from the US and children separated from parents. Night of the Coyotes is released on True Story from 18 September.