20 years after the scandalous film ‘Kids’ in New York by Larry Clark, Guatemalan director based in Mexico, Julio Hernández Cordón, presents his own controversial portrayal of similar subject matter in Mexico City. This movie is a direct and uncompromising portrait of street youth that delves into issues such as social marginalization, sexual diversity, drugs, existential nihilism, delinquency, and skateboarding, all set to the beat of provocative and radical urban music. The film was selected by prestigious festivals such as San Sebastian, Locarno, Mar del Plata, Lisbon, Miami, Rio de Janeiro, and Havana.
Love story “Te Prometo Anarquía” centers on Miguel, from a middle-class family, and Johnny, from a humble barrio, who are skateboarders, best friends and lovers. To finance their lifestyle, they sell their own blood, and those of their gang of skateboarders and acquaintances, to clandestine clinics, until a big delivery job for the mafia goes wrong.