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Two young workers at a busy Port-au-Prince open air market have a conversation about the mystical properties of common objects and whether the divine can inhabit any kind of object—mass produced bottles, toxic rivers, beheaded goats.
Five Puerto Ricans, who participated in the Nationalist Insurrection of 1950 to gain Puerto Rico's independence from the United States, reflect in their old age on the history of this forgotten struggle and the consequences it had on their lives to defy the world's most powerful government.
By means of interviews with family, friends, and colleagues, this documentary pays homage to the multi-faceted career of poet, journalist, actor & director Edwin Reyes. The film showcases his poetry as well as his artwork, and glimpses at the literary culture and political environment relative to the independence movement in Puerto Rico.
An individual who lives the stereotypical Puerto Rican picture, is transferred for work in Paris. With a traveler's manual in hand, he adapts to the ambient future, realizing his solitary lifestyle. Perhaps, in this transfer, he will not travel alone.
A documentary about the iconic Puerto Rican revolutionary Ramón Emeterio Betances and his effect and validity in Puerto Rican 21st century.
Homage to the Puerto Rican composer Rafael Hernández.
Details of the life of Juan Ponce de León, founder of the city of San Juan and first governor of Puerto Rico.
The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.
A couple in love listens to Roque Navarro and his group interpret several romantic melodies.
A Puerto Rican western about a man searching for treasure in someone else's land. Then the landowner comes to claim what he sees as rightfully his.
Follows Carlos (Jorge Rodríguez), a young bohemian in love with Margarita (Ernestina Canino). However, their efforts to be together are endangered when her father catches them together without permission. Unable to be with her at the moment, Carlos embarks on a trip on a sailboat and ends up in the mysterious island of Mu, where he meets Alura (Raquel Canino). Will he remain with his newfound native love, or will he return to his longlost Margarita? Romance Tropical was one of the first Puerto Rican films with sound. The whereabouts of the original reels of the film were unknown, until they were found at the UCLA Film & Television Archive in 2017.
This documentary follows the launch of a collaboration between two Montessori schools in Puerto Rico. Ones is private and the other is public. The students investigate, explore and plant native trees on their school while learning about their environment.
A young woman fights against her insecurities while struggling with an inner conflict between her identity and social expectations. In a moment of desperation, a terrifying vision confronts her with her own vulnerability, leading her into transforming herself and find common sense in an indifferent world.
Three women from Hatillo, Puerto Rico talk about their past and present lives on the island.
A documentary made by the United Methodist Church which explores the possibilities of decolonization in Puerto Rico. Interviews are done with farmers, Puerto Rican intellectuals, and different reverends from the UMC located around the island.
New documentary by Mexican filmmaker Sonia Fritz about a forgotten town in Puerto Rico.
The life and work of Puerto Rican painter and print-maker Myrna Báez are explored in this documentary.
A dramatization of the way a group of rural people resolve their issues with an authoritarian town leader.
Short film from Emanuel Lopez
Artifice: Promise of Steel, a short film loaded with strength, sacrifice, and decisions that leave a lasting mark. Here are born the heroes who were not chosen... but forged.
Instead of asking, “Why so much meth in the gay community?,” Cortés’s experimental film provokes the deeper question, “Why so much pain?” The film delves into the emotional and social wounds that fuel addiction and risk-taking behaviors.
A couple tries to enjoy their surroundings and each other’s company, but an unshakable sense of paranoia follows them wherever they go. So, they decide to run away.
A live special in which Gilberto Santa Rosa and El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico perform some of the most popular and traditional Puerto Rican Christmas music.
The film explores the relationship between the geometric abstract art of Puerto Rican artist Elí Barreto Talavera and his Afro-Caribbean worldview, centered on the Oracle of Ifá. The documentary shows how his spiritual practice and painting complement each other, seeking to restore the connection between human beings and nature and universal harmony.
Julia, a skater raised in New York, moves to Puerto Rico to live with her grandmother and faces a cultural shock. To feel that she fits in, she meets a group of local skaters crew that shows her the underground scene on the island. Drawn to their energy, she joins them, finding belonging, purpose, and identity in her new environment.
Follow the path of water from the rainforests of Puerto Rico’s El Yunque National Forest to the Coastal communities that rely on fresh water… and discover one of the world’s most amazing water treatment (eco)systems.
"Nuestro pedazo de tierra" is a student documentary from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) that explores, through interviews with farmers, mutual aid organizers, and government officials, the severity of food insecurity in the Puerto Rican archipelago during and after Hurricane María. This inaugural documentary, produced by the Oral History Lab (OHL) and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, focuses on the ways in which layered disasters—interwoven within the context of a complex economic and political landscape—further eroded an already unstable local food system at both the production and agricultural distribution levels.
On September 23, 2005, a Puerto Rican revolutionary leader braces for an imminent FBI raid. Refusing to surrender, he shares a final dance with his wife before gunfire erupts.
A group of film students embark on weekly shenanigans as they prepare for their finals project.
When decisions are not what they seem.
Short film from Eduardo Rosado
Short film from Joserro Emmanuelli
Using a tape recorder he got while working at a nursing home, Roy tries to find something a deceased patient left recorded on a old cassette tape stating some money he left at his old home but strange things happen while venturing to the old place.
El Camping is a short horror film about a group of friends who set out on a camping trip, unaware that their getaway will turn into a nightmare. When they discover and open a long-lost Pandora’s Box, chaos is unleashed. As supernatural forces emerge, trust collapses and survival becomes the only objective. Each friend must face the consequences of curiosity—and fight to stay alive.
Short horror film directed by Jorge Austin Borrés.
A young woman tells us what it's like to lose your sanity.
The tragedy of an unfaithful life unwinds before Janice, while she attends her own funeral.
Paulo is a writer who isolates himself in his house, where paranormal events and delusions become a safe haven for his creativity. Until someone comes to change this.
Short horror film directed by Junior R. Urrutia.
First short film from Sergio Torres Negrón
A man who believes himself to be a great white shark haunts a woman with a troubled home life.
A CROSSING (1698/2003) tells a story woven from speculative visioning & historical accounts–spanning from present day to 1698–of Scotland’s attempt to colonise the Caribbean Gulf of Darién, and Crabb Island (the colonial British name for Bieke / Vieques / La Isla Nena, part of the archipelago of present day Puerto Rico). The textual narrative is combined with images, sounds and storylines bearing witness to more recent narratives from Vieques as well as from the northwest coast of Scotland on and near Cape Wrath, where military occupations, and local resistance implicate these distinct geographies. This film is part of a larger body of work that addresses entangled histories of bodies, land and resistance, and seeks to engage griefwork attuned to climate and place.
After the death of their sister, two brothers reach a breaking point as they try to process their grief.
Angela, who lives with her mother Antonia, an Alzheimer's patient, will lose a job opportunity if she does not submit a proposal on time. Angela must deal with the pressure of work and develop the patience to handle Antonia, but above all, she must learn to accept her mother's condition.
"And Still the Seed" is a short film shot in Puerto Rico across three different ecosystems. It narrates the story of various trees and highlights aspects of the island's deforestation. The film also features a contemporary woman working diligently to preserve and care for the seeds of endangered species. This juxtaposition provides a powerful commentary on the island's environmental challenges and the ongoing efforts to combat them. The film invites viewers to witness the delicate balance between destruction and preservation in Puerto Rico's natural landscape.
This is the most recent edition of the FxA videographic project and presents the history of the iconic multifamily housing project.
Drama that includes recreated fragments of María de las Mercedes Barbudo, a Puerto Rican independence activist who was imprisoned by Governor Miguel de la Torre and banished from the island to which she was never able to return.
A documentary made by the government of Puerto Rico to demonstrate how slums were converted into low-income housing
barrunto is a speculative fiction that takes place in a future of the past, in a present ruptured now. Its far-reaching network of affinities spans from Puerto Rico to Scotland, from the land to the bottom of the sea, and all the way to planet Uranus.
Two journalists are persecuted because they have information that puts the re-election of the current governor at risk.
This entirely puertorican short film talks about how Nando, a stressed and anxious young adult goes on his first date with Laura, a girl he barely knows. Once the date begins, things start to go wrong. Not knowing what to do, the two end up stuck at a gas station having to make an effort to turn their date around.
A boy needs to learn to become brave and take care of his family, so he can take over after his father.
The daily experiences of three land cultivators in Puerto Rico.
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz brings together various forms of non-linear thinking and simultaneous temporalities that challenge traditional ways of reading with El cuervo, la fosa, y la yegua (The Raven, the Pit and the Mare). Taking as her model a method of Sanskrit poetry that tells two stories in the same text at the same time, Santiago Muñoz explores acts of simultaneous narration to juxtapose images and sounds from seemingly disconnected universes. For instance, a madeleine is both a pastry and an idea; language is historical and abstract; in the “historical now,” there is a plastic cup and a robotic arm at the bottom of the ocean. Each day, a mare visits a junkyard near an overgrown forest and tries to mate with a Corvette. A traditional Haitian proverb states: the snake can only be measured once it’s dead. Consider things you can’t see but know are real—the bottom of the Puerto Rico Trench, the Marassa Jumeaux, our attachments to past orders.
A teenage girl tries to change her sexual orientation when her mother doesn't accept her.
A laborer and the town's rich buck vie for the love a of a beautiful peasant lady, resulting in homicide. The first film produced in Puerto Rico, it is now considered lost.
First Puerto Rican non-documentary film.
An account of the diplomatic visit of a Puerto Rican delegation led by poet and politician José de Diego to the Dominican Republic in June 1915.