Puerto Rico Movies

How fair is it for the government to control its citizens? Four Puerto Ricans confront their past when they open their “files”, the...

Alessandra Pacini, solar physicist and mother of two, has dedicated her life to researching our sun and its relation to the rest of our solar system....

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

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

A drama showing infidelity from the unique perspective of women. The one who was betrayed, the one who does it for fun, the obsessed, and the one on...

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.

This work recreates the spirit of frustration and is the result of scratching and painting the tiny super 8 mm frame without magnification. The...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Experimental Super 8 film featuring animated 3-D puppets based on the characters in Picasso’s painting.

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

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

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 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...

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

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