Movies: Puerto rico

As experienced by 9 year old Angelita, the film portrays the hardship of migration endured by her family’s move from a small town in Puerto Rico to New York City’s Lower East Side....

Based on Miguel Meléndez Muñoz's novel....

A day in the life of a college student working two jobs earning minimum-wage and sleeping in her car to make ends meet....

Told as the memory of an aging gentleman, this is the story of Adan, a Puerto Rican boy who has one day to find a home for his pet goat, Chivo, before his family relocates to New York City in the late 1950s. While searching for a new owner for Chivo,...

What is "la escena" (the scene) and what is its importance, if any? Guillermo Gómez Álvarez tries to answer these questions with candid interviews from musicians and fans of the vibrant and, many times controversial, punk music scene in Puerto Rico. ...

It’s not about love. It’s not about loss. It’s about a moment. A moment during this beautiful journey where you happen to cross paths with another soul, that will change that little part of you that is in need....

Explores the trajectory of the young nationalist from the time of his incarceration, at 23 years of age, as a result of the attack on the United States Congress....

Hand painted, scratched animated Super 8 film examining the contradictions of the psychopathology of colonization....

Comedians Luis Raúl and Raymond Arrieta discuss current affairs in the Centro de Bellas Artes de Caguas....

The Hurricane Maria represented a historic event for the island of Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rican spirit at the helm of this natural disaster was shattered beyond repair. And from the rumble the Puerto Rican spirit will be reborn again. Omar Iloy make...

Tale about the fragility of power, the story of a David and a Goliath. Animated frame by frame with modeling clay on a light box's glass....

A group of children camp in the yard of their grandmother's house in the outskirts of El Yunque. Plunged into a fantastic collective dream, the children get lost in El Yunque and experience the adventure of finding their way home, as they meet themse...

Ana is on her way to pick up her boyfriend, Gabriel, to go to a party together. Upon arrival, she finds something that makes her reconsider their attendance to the party and jeopardizes their relationship....

Experimental film about rhythm as corporal expression of a culture. Presents various choreographies and does not include the participation of men....

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Combines animation and documentary footage to illustrate the origins and impact of the musical genres Bomba and Plena in Puerto Rican culture....

The cultural and architectural phenomenon of the Corsican in Puerto Rico, and the influence of the Corsican immigration in this territory....

Musings about what it means to travel, let the imagination fly, and to escape from reality. Combines documentary footage, animation on paper, and hand-painted and scratched film....

Time is not linear, it is an infinite circle that surrounds us. -Andrei Tarkovsky...

Experimental film which incorporates a range of materials, ink, coloring pencils, watercolors, and graphite, to narrate the story of a woman who is transformed into a cat while she drinks the celebrated beverage of the island, coffee....