Now celebrating its 16th anniversary, the Puerto Rico Film Festival (PRFF) will take place from September 17 to 21, in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Opening night features a screening of feature film Esta isla [This Island, 2025, directed by Cristian Carretero and Lorraine Jones Molina] at Teatro Yagüez, on September 17, at 7:00pm.
Description: Siblings Charlie and Bebo maintain a humble but freewheeling lifestyle living in a public housing complex in their coastal Puerto Rican town. They drink and party together — often on the beach, at night, with friends — and by day, they try to make ends meet as fishermen with the occasional side hustle. Against this backdrop, teenage Bebo meets and falls in love with Lola, a young woman from a privileged family. But when Charlie becomes embroiled in shady dealings running up against the business of a local drug dealer, the young lovers flee and seek shelter deep in the island’s untamed and isolated mountains… biding their time to evade peril.
With grounded performances and striking cinematography, Lorraine Jones and Cristian Carretero’s confident first feature is a potent exploration of wayward youth seeking a better future for themselves amidst their precarious present. –José Rodríguez
For more information, see https://www.prfilmfest.com/ and https://www.goelevent.com/prfilmfestival/e/EstaIsla
Also see our previous post https://repeatingislands.com/2025/06/12/tribecas-esta-isla-is-the-mythic-coming-of-age-puerto-rican-film-i-needed/
Now celebrating its 16th anniversary, the Puerto Rico Film Festival (PRFF) will take place from September 17 to 21, in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Opening night features a screening of feature film Esta isla [This Island, 2025, directed by Cristian Carretero and Lorraine Jones Molina] at Teatro Yagüez, on September 17, at 7:00pm. Description: Siblings Charlie and Bebo maintain a humble but
