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Yolanda Olveros and Mari Rodriguez are high school classmates who discover they live in the same predominantly Mexican neighborhood in Los Angeles. The two teenagers forge a friendship while negotiating the expectations of their migrant parents. The intense social and personal pressures to belong bring them both intimately closer to one another. As visual artist Felipe Baeza, tonight’s guest presenter, notes, “MOSQUITA Y MARI is not your standard coming out story,” but rather a layered meditation on migration, sexuality, and working-class family life, all themes that are near to Baeza’s personal experience.

Presented as part of Queer|Art|Film: Chicas y Fantasmas, a special season curated by Vivian Crockett, Camilo Godoy and Carlos Motta