Vidas como la tuya 2005
Four stories with the intention to make the people reflect on their actions, decisions, and how they affect others around them.
Four stories with the intention to make the people reflect on their actions, decisions, and how they affect others around them.
A young clown decides to abandon the small-town circus he works for in order to try and make it in a big city.
Based on Miguel Meléndez Muñoz's novel.
The story of a man who after the death of his wife begins to show signs of Alzheimer's disease. The film illustrates how each family member reacts to this event and how this man feels that his life is going back to a road already traveled.
A widowed man meets a younger woman at a bus stop.
There are over 100,000 dogs living in the streets of Puerto Rico. Why? This Emmy winning documentary is an in-depth investigation about the current situation of animal abandonment in the island.
Adaptation from Enrique A. Laguerre's novel "La llamarada". It depicts the struggles of Puerto Rican peons in the sugar cane fields during the 1930's.
Satirical comedy about a jíbaro that moves from the country to the city and resists to change his rural customs. The film depicts family and emotional conflicts that Puerto Rico suffered due to Americanization.
Documentary about the life and work of noted journalist and writer, Nilita Vientós Gastón.
Based on Manuel Zeno Gandía's novel about peasant life in late nineteenth-century Puerto Rico.
Four young people, who show no respect for their elders, wake up one morning to the surprise they are now 70 years old.
After a long career as a detective in the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Police of Puerto Rico, José Rafael Prado takes office work before retiring. The murder of a coworker creates a vacancy Prado quickly wants to fill in order to "retire with honor".
Based on Enrique A. Laguerre's novel.
Amores explores the world of acting from its most basic and solitary form: the monologue. If only an actor, a text, and someone who hears it are needed to make an acting exercise, then Amores offers fourteen splendid acts from renowned professionals in Puerto Rico. Amores is composed by different monologues that, in set, offer reflection on aspects of love. In this manner, the title becomes a statement: amor es... (love is...)
Abelardo Díaz Alfaro visits the places that inspired him to write his book "Terrazzo". His life and work is explored through interviews with friends and colleagues.
Illustrates the events of the Ponce Massacre through the life of one of the victims, Ulpiano Perea.
Bautista is a taxicab driver that has been rented by a woman named Ada. Ada wants him to drive her to the other side of the island with the condition that he doesn't take any other passengers and that he drives her to get some guavas. During the trip, Bautista, a driver for more than 44 years, becomes a storyteller. He tells Ada different stories that he has heard all related to the exotic guava fruit. These stories begin to take life while Bautista tells them, giving us a whimsical touch of magical realism with a Caribbean twist, and showing how fragile the circumstances these characters live are.
Through interviews with friends, family, and colleagues, the documentary relates the life and career of Rafael Hernández, one of Puerto Rico’s most renowned and beloved composers of popular songs.
Alex, a 10 year old child, faces the trauma of his parents' divorce, a new home, neighborhood, and school. Alex dreams of being a famous ballplayer like his father, but the instability of his new life makes him an insecure child and unable to recognize his talent. The arrival of Zompi, a virtual intelligent animal, transforms and helps him overcome all his fears.