Directed by Cecilia Aldarondo • 2020 • Puerto Rico

An intimate and lyrical portrait of trauma, resilience, and resistance in post–Hurricane María Puerto Rico, LANDFALL traces collective recovery in the wake of the devastating storm while exposing the island’s deepening economic and environmental crises and its fraught colonial relationship with the United States. Moving between intimate conversations and public protests, Cecilia Aldarondo’s documentary reveals how catastrophe laid bare existing structures of inequality as investors arrived in search of profit. Refusing both spectacle and sentimentality, LANDFALL centers the strength and solidarity of those rebuilding, revealing that catastrophe does not create crisis so much as expose the structures that sustain it.