Desalambrando

Directed by Pedro Ángel Rivera Muñoz and based on the book A Desalambrar by Liliana Cotto Morales, this film is a narrative about the social struggles for housing and land during the 20th century, known in Puerto Rico as rescates de terrenos and their relevance for our present. It is contextualized within the history of the lands appropriations from Spanish colonialism to today’s coloniality in the face of adversity. The film also highlights the impact on the island of social processes in the continental United States. The type of land seizures that it documents are a form of collective actions also found in countries of the Great Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

Genre: Documentary Rating: NR Running Time: 1:00