Best friends Silvia and Beba know that the long summer nights of their youth cannot last forever. In Laredo, a city in southern Texas on the Mexican border, their hang-out spots are so familiar but, stuck in an immigration process over which deportation hangs as a constant possibility, home still seems a fragile concept.
Between bars, drive-thrus, friends’ couches and the borderlands, they confront the stresses of survival, the future, and community building. For them, this means protest action for legal abortion and against border control abuses, in a politically divided America. But the dusty half-light is also a time for poetry and dreams. Their laughter and creative expression cement a sense of solidarity and belonging in togetherness.
Filmmakers - Silvia Del Carmen Castaños and Estefanía "Beba" Contreras
+ A Mouthful of Petrol (35) - Director: Jess Kohl - UK PREMIERE
A coming-of-age documentary about 12-year-old JayDee, whose father brought him up on car racing. Now JayDee's first race is approaching-and he doesn't want to disappoint his father.
