Puerto Rico Movies

A girl encounters a doppelgänger and does everything she can to escape from it, in a Super 8 subtropic Experimental film shot with Kodak

Historical documentary about the peaceful resistance movement against the bombing practices of the US Navy in Vieques, including the arrests of more...

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.

We Are Still Here is a student-made documentary from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez campus (UPRM) about the lives and experiences of...

Benedicto, is a retired police officer who has dedicated more than 30 years of his life, helping young drug addicts and homeless people in the rural...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

A student's late-night study session is violently interrupted by a giant centipede who has sneaked into her apartment through her shower drain.

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...

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