If going in, you did not know that “Hummingbirds” was a documentary, you would readily believe that it was a naturalistically performed indie film.
It’s a credit to the film’s loose structure, absence of didacticism, and multitude of incidents that it can easily pass off as fiction.
The filmmakers in this case are also the subjects of the film – Silvia, 18, a child of undocumented immigrants to the United States, and Beba, 21, an undocumented immigrant herself.
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