Landfall

Using the protests which brought down the governor of Puerto Rico in 2019 as background, the film offers a portrait of collective trauma and resistance. While hurricane Maria attracted wide media coverage, the world paid much less attention to the storm which preceded it: a debt crisis of 72 billion dollars that paralyzed Puerto Rico way before the winds and water hit it. Landfall examines the relationship between those two storms – one environmental, the other economic – juxtaposing concurring utopic visions of recovery.