Puerto Rico Movies

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

Peggy Robles-Alvarado is a Jerome Hill Foundation Fellow in Literature, a Latinx Playwrights Circle Fellow, and a three-time International Latino...

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.

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

The end of a friendship between two fellow musicians torn by the harsh realities of adulthood in the Puerto Rican art scene.

The COVID-19 pandemic has touched everyone's lives in and outside of Puerto Rico. Through singers and other characters, Popular's new musical...

Stigma towards HIV and the people who live with it in Puerto Rico is something that has always been present in our society. Through the life story of...

Two tons of snow—flown from New Hampshire to Puerto Rico in 1952 in order to “gift” Puerto Ricans a “white...

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

“400 pétalos” (400 petals) tells the story of René and Sun, two opposites that love each other... Until René gives...

At Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, Eliana Nossa studies the ionosphere. This short films tells the story of Columbian researcher Eliana Nossa as...

Hand painted, scratched Super 8 film meditating on Puerto Rico's political status through the layering of traditional Bomba music and governmental...

When Nico decides to spend his summer with his abuela and cousins in Puerto Rico, he didn't expect to be hunted by the legendary chupacabra. But soon...

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

Experimental film which incorporates a range of materials, ink, coloring pencils, watercolors, and graphite, to narrate the story of a woman who is...

First part of the Trilogy of the Island in which Poli Marichal expresses and vents the anger and frustration caused by the colonial situation.

When an unstable and grief-stricken young man murders the alleged killer of his best friend, he must try to conceal what he’s done from the...

A short film about the first Bomba Ancestral returning to the ocean at sunset. Organized by Sheila Osorio and Samuel Lind in Loíza, Puerto...

As Puerto Rico falls deeper and deeper into an unprecedented crisis this is Vietnam’s story, a community or barrio located on the coast of...