Streeters

Rufino grew up on the streets of Mexico City. He is sixteen; his shelter is under a flyover, his work is snatching bags, and there is solvent. Xóchitl, the girl he loves, is with him. He has never seen his father; from what his mother told him, the man is still in the city. He decides to find him. When he does, the truth is not the story he was told. Meanwhile the real danger on the street is not hunger but the police collecting money. Gerardo Tort directs; eighty-four minutes, adapted from the play by Jesús González Dávila, with Luis Fernando Peña as Rufino and Maya Zapata as Xóchitl. It counted in Mexico as one of the films that showed street children without looking away.