Samara Pérez Santiago
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After the loss of her father, a young woman takes on a third job to make ends meet in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Mara Has Three Jobs in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Ofelia receives a call from her ex-wife, Maité, announcing she's in labor. On their way to the hospital, they resume the unfinished issues of their past and deal with the uncertainties of motherhood.
January

A couple of criminals challenge both love and the law to achieve the wedding of their dreams. Liza, determined to stay in her country despite financial hardships, convinces her boyfriend Joseph to go through with a heist that Las Vejigantes, the crime syndicate he works for, had explicitly abandoned. What starts as a simple art gallery theft, quickly escalates into an unexpected marriage proposal, a chaotic series of heists, police chases, and a media frenzy.
Till' jail do us part

Olivia suffers from OCD, a mental condition that manifests itself through a voice in her head that compels her to brush her teeth constantly. During Christmas Eve festivities in Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, the voice comes back after being dormant for a year. Not having Health Care, she desperately searches for the pills that will control her OCD without a prescription. Through her friend Jessica, who she met years ago in a mental institution, she meets David, the town’s pharmacist’s son, who agrees to sell her the pills. Trapped inside David’s apartment by a rainstorm, two strangers start uncovering truths about each other and start a healing process that doesn’t necessarily involve pills.
Receta no incluída

Natividad, Aldwin and Alberto, residents of the Miramar community in Guayama, Puerto Rico, one of the communities mainly affected by the Applied Energy Systems (AES) coal mine, narrate their daily struggles against the burning of mineral coal, and the use and deposit of toxic ash near their homes.
Chimney of Death

Gael visits their family in Puerto Rico at the height of summer, and soon meets Mateo, a handsome local who changes their life forever.
Chulo

A fragmented story of unrequited love in the post-apocalyptic wasteland of the last colony on Earth, Puerto Rico.
Terrarium of the Sleepless

A single mother goes out for a run and never returns.
Alma

Isolated in an old rustic house, a father must confront apparitions of his recently deceased daughter a day away from her funeral.
La bruma y el descanso

A pregnant woman makes a series of phone calls to her doctor and loved ones while she waits alone to give birth at her parent's bathtub.
Await

A Puerto Rican seamstress ponders leaving her island to go live with her daughter in the United States.
The Waves Call You

The beloved, unapologetic Lis/Simón lives between being a mother of two boys and a drag king performer. Navigating the spectrum of their own identity, Simón discovers that validation and their sense of self are much more than just a costume.
Nació Simón

A young slam poet who can't escape his demons prepares to deliver his performance before a live audience.
Stray Dog

A vibrant exploration of community and Black Trans euphoria, Hustleween chronicles an annual celebration created by EspicyNipples that transforms memory into queer resistance and joy.
Hustleween

One early morning, 21 year-old Samantha, is suddenly woken up by her mother because her father, Ernesto, is experiencing a dangerous low-blood sugar episode. This overwhelming situation unleashes an internal struggle in Samantha, forcing her to confront memories of trauma and her greatest fears.
Viéndolo Desvanecer

Don Isidoro, better known as the “holy hand” of his people, shelters his grandson Pablo for a few days after he escaped from his home.