[Note: this film is available October 1–3 ONLY]

Executive-produced by Laura Poitras (CITIZENFOUR), this powerful documentary from Cecilia Aldorando (MEMORIES OF A PENITENT HEART) chronicles the aftermath of Hurricane Maria through glimpses of everyday life across Puerto Rico in the time since the hurricane abated and the gaze of the media turned elsewhere. Delving into both the history of the fraught relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico and its current-day manifestations, Aldorando traverses the island to document the resilience of a community banding together to rebuild, taking things into their own hands after expectations of help from the contiguous United States faded away. At the same time, locals are understandably skeptical when real estate agents and American cryptocurrency entrepreneurs flock to the devastated island in search of a tax haven, passing off their interest in Puerto Rico as humanitarian and ecologically driven. A portrait of an island unfairly pummeled by increasingly dangerous climate conditions and corrupt bureaucracy, LANDFALL is also a love letter to the strength and adaptability of a people, as timely as it is inspiring. Official Selection, 2020 Tribeca, Hot Docs and Florida film festivals. DIR/SCR/PROD Cecilia Aldarondo; PROD Ines Hofmann Kanna. U.S., 2020, color, 91 min. In English and Spanish with English subtitles. NOT RATED

Please note: this title is available to viewers located anywhere in Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia.