In Managua, Nicaragua, teenager Sujeylin Aguilar raises her newborn daughter Karla on the same streets she has been calling home for the past eight years. Based in a city park and part of a larger group of youngsters, mother and baby struggle to reach the little one's first birthday. Beautifully told and full of hope, Karla's Arrival offers an intense personal story about second generation street children.
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One of my all time favorites.
Good story, Not enough for a whole film
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Gripping documentary of a homeless teenage mother trying to raise her newborn daughter on the streets of Nicaragua. This was both sad and intriguing; dropping you right into Sujeylin's life as her baby is born via C-section and then she and her drug addicted boyfriend head home on the bus to the city park where they live. We then follow Karla and her mother as they struggle to get by for about a year.I will say that she didn't at all seem concerned with bettering her situation which could be because she is one of the many second generation street children and had never known any different. I would be curious to see how Sujeylin and Karla are doing in a couple years, because this is not an easy life. There are no statistics on 2nd generation street children. 11.13
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