1. 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.
2. Landfall (Landfall)
Hurricane María abated, the news crews packed up and left Puerto Rico, and the interest of the international community turned elsewhere. What happened next?
3. One-Way Ticket (Boleto de ida)
Documentary about how the arrival of the railway industry impacted Puerto Rican culture economically, socially, and humanistically during the first half of the 20th century. It includes photos by Jack Delano, among others, and scenarios to reconstruct the experience of what could have been the last trip made by train from San Juan to Ponce in 1953.
It has an average vote of 4.7 on TMDB.
4. Antonio Paoli: Rey de Tenores y Tenor de Reyes (Antonio Paoli: Rey de Tenores y Tenor de Reyes)
The life and career of Puerto Rican tenor Antonio Paoli, also known as The King of Tenors and The Tenor of Kings.
5. Mamagüela (Mamagüela)
Experimental film about rhythm as corporal expression of a culture. Presents various choreographies and does not include the participation of men.
6. Dilema I: Burundanga Boricua (Dilema I: Burundanga Boricua)
Combines animation, documentary footage, and hand-painted film as well as slide projections, a painted 12" x 24" backdrop, and sculptural palm tree to create a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Puerto Rican psyche.
7. Son Afrocaribeño (Son Afrocaribeño)
Combines animation and documentary footage to illustrate the origins and impact of the musical genres Bomba and Plena in Puerto Rican culture.
8. Nasciturus (Nasciturus)
At least we're alive. Humberto.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. Anne Virkki: Near Earth Asteroids
At Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, "Anne Virkki: Near Earth Asteroids" tells the story of Research Scientist Anne Virkki and her ongoing studies on asteroids and their threat to humanity. Originally from Finland, Anne Virkki shares her educational experience and the study of radio signals of asteroids, their shape, size, and surface.
13. Alessandra Pacini: Extreme Weather from the Sun to the Earth
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. Traveling across the globe with her family, from Finland to Puerto Rico, Alessandra is on a mission to discover the great mysteries of our solar system.
14. Islas entretejidas: Puerto Rico y Córcega (Islas entretejidas: Puerto Rico y Córcega)
The cultural and architectural phenomenon of the Corsican in Puerto Rico, and the influence of the Corsican immigration in this territory.
15. Eliana Nossa: The Ionosphere
At Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, Iliana Nossa studies the ionosphere. This short films tells the story of Columbian researcher Iliana Nossa as she explains her study of the ever-changing universe, Arecibo's technology and data, and her role as a woman among her male colleagues. She studies the ionospheric irregularities that impact terrestrial communication.
16. Luisa tenía razón (Luisa tenía razón)
Explores concerns about uterine cancer and the value of the Pap Test in detecting this serious type of cancer.
17. Cinema Puerto Rico: una antropología visual (Cinema Puerto Rico: una antropología visual)
A look at Puerto Rico and its cinema through films, documentaries, and commercials from the early twentieth century to the emerging cinema of today. Visual and narrative strategies portray fragments of Puerto Rico's general history and, in turn, answers the questions of who, when, and for whom have films been made in Puerto Rico and the resources that are available to do it.
18. Una identidad en absurdo Vol. 1 (Una identidad en absurdo Vol. 1)
Guillermo Gómez Álvarez explores the identity politics of Puerto Rico via archival footage from various sources that clash with nine original songs from local independent musicians and a thematic analysis from a psychoanalyst and a historian. From the juxtaposition the absurd becomes coherent and the coherent becomes absurd as Puerto Rican identity is defined and rejected almost simultaneously.
19. The Scene (La escena)
What is "la escena" and what is its importance, if any? Guillermo Gómez Álvarez tries to answer these questions with candid interviews from musicians and fans of the vibrant and, many times controversial, punk music scene in Puerto Rico. The decadence, rage, drugs, alcohol, politics, and social aspects are showcased in this documentary that tells an important part of the history of the great dysfunctional family that is "el punk boricua".
20. 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.
