Fighting Kites is the story of four homeless children in the busiest border city in the world: Tijuana. Jonathan and Jesus are two niños polleros who work for the Coyotes leading immigrants across the border until one day they decide to change their lives and become part of a “family”; Bladimir is an L.A. gangmember who has been recently deported and has to start over again; Enrique is a 14-year-old callejero (street child) who blows fireballs on the streets for a living and still believes in the promise of a better life in Tijuana. Fighting Kites takes us into the world of these children who cross the porous U.S. border while certain boundaries in their own lives remain impassable; exclusion, poverty and an uncertain future are the highest fences for them. Even if they cross the border, will they get to the “other” side?
