The film

Teenage mother Sujeylin Aguilar raises her newborn on the same streets she herself grew up in. Set in Managua, Nicaragua, the film explores the universal issue of second generation street children.

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Meet the director Koen Suidgeest

DocumentaMadrid – Madrid (Second Prize)
Jury Prize - One World Human Rights Festival (Pristina, Kosovo)
Busan International Film Festival (official selection)
"A humanistic documentary classic." - Tue Steen Müller, organizer, professor and international documentary critical
Best Documentary - Bar International Film Festival (Bar, Montenegro)
New York International Latino Film Festival
San Diego Latino Film Festival (official selection)
"A wonderful film. Poignant, sensitive and necessary." - Antonio Pérez-Hernández, Spanish Ambassador in Nicaragua
London International Documentary Festival
Docs DF, Mexico (official selection)
Ad Hoc: Inconvenient Films (Vilnius, Lithuania)
"Ultra-realistic, tender, intimate and full of hope for the trial of motherhood in extreme circumstances." - Marie Claire magazine
Best Feature Documentary - MujerDOC (Soria, Spain)
Montreal World Film Festival Documentaries of the World
"Both tender and terrible at the same time..." -Avvenire (Italy)
One World Human Rights Festival - Prague (official selection)
Docudays Human Rights Festival – Kiev (official selection)

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US broadcast premiere on Link TV

The American broadcast premiere for Karla’s Arrival on Link TV’s flagship documentary series Doc Debut: West coast prime time premiere: [...] Read more →

MujerDOC – Soria (España)

Este viernes, 16 de marzo a las 20.15 hrs, La llegada de Karla se proyecta como parte de MujerDOC en [...] Read more →

San Diego Latino Film Festival

Karla’s Arrival is in competition at the San Diego Latino Film Festival. Screening times are Saturday, March 10th at 8pm [...] Read more →

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