1. Luz in Latin America (Luz en Latinoamérica)
The inspiring account on international bodyboarding star Luz 'Loly' Grande - a young woman on a personal mission to make bodyboarding a means to improve the lives of disadvantaged children in Puerto Rico, Argentina, Brazil, and Peru.
2. Kapky a bubliny (Kapky a bubliny)
(Kapky a bubliny)
3. Una pasión llamada Clara Lair (Una pasión llamada Clara Lair)
Through dramatization and interviews with her colleagues, this film captures the life and work of famed Puerto Rican poet Mercedes Negrón Muñoz .
4. Nuyorican Básquet (Nuyorican Básquet)
The story of the basketball players that represented Puerto Rico at the San Juan's 1979 Pan Am Games.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
5. Julia, toda en mí (Julia, toda en mí)
A poetic journey about the life and work of Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos.
6. Anatomy of a Dress (Anatomía de un vestido)
This documentary presents the passion, the talents, the history, the struggles, and the local and international triumphs of the most renowned fashion designers in Puerto Rico. The history of garment making in Puerto Rico has marked our history, culture, and traditions forever. The exploitative history, as a labor manual industry, which served as the base for what we have today as a fashion industry is also portrayed.
7. The Last American Colony
Puerto Rico, the last relic of colonization in the western hemisphere, has been a dependent territory of the USA since 1917. Los Macheteros and one of its leaders Juan Segarra have been fighting for its full independence for many decades.
8. El puente (El puente)
The efforts of a community to build a bridge which would allow their children to go school during the rainy season.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
9. San Juan, más allá de las murallas (San Juan, más allá de las murallas)
Explore the 500-year history of the city of San Juan, from the move from Caparra to the different invasions during these centuries. It also looks at how different situations and people were key to what is now the capital of Puerto Rico. This documentary presents, through the recreation of key situations, archival material, and accounts of historians and researchers, decisive moments that influenced what is now the capital.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
10. Isla chatarra (Isla chatarra)
Isla chatarra describes the phenomenon of the ubiquity of automobiles in Puerto Rico. The island measures slightly less than 9,000 square kilometers, but has 25,000 kilometers of paved road, one of the highest proportions in the planet. Puerto Rico is one of the countries with the largest number of vehicles per kilometer and third in the world in number of cars per 1,000 inhabitants. The film was produced with the idea to raise consciousness and create a dialogue about the ongoing situation of our dependence on cars. It also shows the dangerous circumstances of an island that is slowly being covered by scrap metal.
11. The Age of Consequences
'The Hurt Locker' meets 'An Inconvenient Truth', THE AGE OF CONSEQUENCES investigates the impacts of irreversible climate change, resource scarcity, mass migration, and pandemic conflict through the lens of US national security and global instability.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
12. Biopsia (Biopsia)
Carmen accompanies a group of women who must travel from the island of Vieques to San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico, in order to perform breast biopsies. The long journey is by water and road. Amid many fears and vicissitudes, Carmen confirms once again the need for appropriate medical services for both women and for the rest of the Vieques population.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
13. Antarctica: An Adventure of a Different Nature
This large format film explores the last great wilderness on earth. It takes you to the coldest, driest, windiest continent, Antarctica. The film explores the life in Antarctica, both for the animals that live their and the scientist that work there.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
14. Benedictus (Benedictus)
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 town of Corozal, Puerto Rico. His story takes place day by day in a little humble house in the death road of the municipal cemetery of Corozal, a rural municipality of Puerto Rico with a high population of young homeless people, alcoholism and drug addicts. The door of Benedictus little house on the death road to the cemetery is the deviation between life and death for these young people in need.
15. Your Day Is My Night (Your Day Is My Night)
Immigrant residents of a “shift-bed” apartment in the heart of New York City’s Chinatown share their stories of personal and political upheaval. As the bed transforms into a stage, the film reveals the collective history of the Chinese in the United States through conversations, autobiographical monologues, and theatrical movement pieces. Shot in the kitchens, bedrooms, wedding halls, cafés, and mahjong parlors of Chinatown, this provocative hybrid documentary addresses issues of privacy, intimacy, and urban life.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
16. La otra intención (La otra intención)
In San Juan, Puerto Rico, hundreds of artists gathered to pay honor to the work of Puerto Rican artist Myrna Báez. La otra intención is an observational documentary that travels through the work of Myrna while visiting artists, such as Petra Bravo, Deborah Hunt, Yiyo Tirado, Gustavo Castrodad, the theater group Y no había luz, among others, to accompany them in their creative process of re-interpretation.
17. CERN, or The Factory for the Absolute (CERN neboli Továrna na absolutno)
(CERN neboli Továrna na absolutno)
18. Almost Nothing (Almost Nothing - Cern: Experimental City)
CERN, the world's largest physics laboratory, is also a society in itself. A mythological microcosm and science's answer to the Tower of Babel, with its many thousand employees as an indispensable element among cables and computers. The researchers speak the same esoteric and nerdy language. But their physical trials are not the only experiments in the human anthill. CERN is also a utopian experiment in collaboration across cultures, where the world's most advanced technology meets the world's sharpest—and some of the quirkiest—minds.
It has an average vote of 4.9 on TMDB.
19. Cosmic Voyage
The Academy Award® nominee Cosmic Voyage combines live action with state-of-the-art computer-generated imagery to pinpoint where humans fit in our ever-expanding universe. Highlighting this journey is a "cosmic zoom" based on the powers of 10, extending from the Earth to the largest observable structures in the universe, and then back to the subnuclear realm.
It has an average vote of 7.105 on TMDB.
20. The Universe: God and the Universe
Where did the universe come from and did a creator have a hand in making it? As scientists learn more about the universe, our ideas about exactly what God made have come into question.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
