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Which 1951 film, directed by Luis Bunuel and shot in the slums of Mexico City, follows a gang of impoverished street children and is considered a precursor to Italian neorealism in Latin American cinema?

Los olvidados ('The Young and the Damned') was initially reviled in Mexico for its brutal depiction of poverty but later won Best Director at Cannes and was inducted into UNESCO's Memory of the World registry.

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