Hummingbirds DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema, before it's national broadcast premiere from POV on PBS Television Channel on Monday, July 1, 2024, at 10pm/9C. It will be available to stream until September 29, 2024, on pbs.org and the PBS App.
Silvia Del Carmen Castaños & Estefanía "Beba" Contreras tell their own coming-of-age story in Hummingbirds, a punk-rock portrait of the last summer of their youth on the Texas-Mexico border.Together they transform their hometown of Laredo into a cinematic wonderland of creative expression and activist hijinx. Winner of the Berlinale Generation Grand Jury Prize, Hummingbirds celebrates the power of friendship, laughter, and joy as tools of survival and resistance.