SWAMP LION at the 2022 Arizona International Film Festival

127 East Congress Street,Tucson AZ 85701

22 April, 2022

Description

A father in a Texas border town starts trafficking drugs to pay for his son’s cancer treatment. How far will you go for family? After their son is diagnosed with advanced cancer, a trucker driver and supermarket cashier, Jim and Bee, struggle with the mountain of medical bills. Forced to come up with $ 250,000 in order to afford treatment, Jim reluctantly decides to traffic drugs across the US/Mexico border. This film explores how far a family will go to save their child and the moral decay that follows their love and sacrifice. (Torben Bech, USA, 2022, 111 min )