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Multigenerational borders manifest both emotionally and vocationally in the relationship between Miguel Bencomo and his fourteen-year-old son Alejandro. In this portrait of ranch life in the town of Casas Grandes, Mexico, questions rise surrounding love, connection, escapism and the inherited responsibility of family lineage.
A visual artist all her life, Luchita Hurtado only reluctantly experienced her breakthrough at the age of 97. “Green Turns Brown” is a minimalist eulogy to the publicity-shy painter. Shot on Super 8 film stock during the last months of her life, this film, which revels in autumn colours, paints the portrait of a woman in tune with nature who sees death not as the end but as the crossing of a border. “Life goes on.”
In a small U.S./Mexico border town, two teenagers drive through desert roads on their way to perform their summer job—picking up migrants who have just illegally crossed the border. As their ride progresses, they negotiate an in-between state oscillating amidst boredom and violence, adolescence and adulthood, Mexican and American identities, while living in tension as natural beings in a land controlled by manmade barriers.
