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Esta Isla

  • 2025
  • 1 HR, 54 min
  • JUN 12 → JUN 18
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Released 2025
Puerto Rico
1 hour, 54 minutes
Outsider Pictures
Starring
  • Zion Ortiz
  • Fabiola Victoria Brown
  • Xavier Antonio Morales
  • Georgina Borri
Director

Cristian Carretero

Lorraine Jones


Bebo, a teenager scraping by in a coastal town in Puerto Rico, lives with his older brother in a public housing complex. Fishing is their lifeline, but as desperation grows, they’re drawn into illegal activities that promise quick money but come with dangerous consequences. When a deal goes wrong and blood is spilled, Bebo is forced to flee with his girlfriend Lola, a girl from a wealthy family who’s equally eager to escape her own troubled life.

Their journey takes them deep into the island’s mountainous interior, a place of both refuge and peril. As they navigate the dense, labyrinthine terrain, they encounter old traditions and the remnants of a fading way of life, contrasting sharply with the violence that follows them. Despite the beauty of the mountains, Bebo and Lola are never truly safe, with hitmen closing in and the ever-present threat of being surrounded by the very ocean that once provided their livelihood.

Their flight becomes a test of survival, not just from their pursuers but from their own inner demons and the realities they can’t outrun. As they push deeper into the wilderness, Bebo must confront the choices that led them here and decide whether he can ever find redemption—or if the sea will be their final escape. 

Film Stills

Full Cast
Zion Ortiz Bebo
Fabiola Victoria Brown Lola
Xavier Antonio Morales Charlie
Georgina Borri Aida
Additional Credits
Cristian Carretero Director
Lorraine Jones Director

Reviews

“Visually evocative and uniquely conceived, Cristian Carretero and Lorraine Jones’s “Esta Isla” (“This Island”) is a lovers-on-the-run narrative unafraid to pause for emotional and thematic effect.”

Robert Daniels
RogerEbert.com

“Larger sociopolitical preoccupations remain just under the surface, never stepping fully into the foreground to take over the spotlight. Yet, they enter the narrative by way of the characters’ emotional connection to those before them.”

Carlos Aguilar
IndieWire

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