Logline:

Across Puerto Rico, generations of women are returning to the land, finding through farming not only a way to grow food, but another way to live.

Synopsis:

Las Jíbaras is an intimate portrait of two generations of Puerto Rican women who have built their lives around farming and a close relationship with the land and with one another. At a time when so many of us feel caught in a cycle of wanting more, working more, and still feeling like we’re falling behind, their lives offer a striking alternative.

Moving between the mountains of Puerto Rico and San Juan, the film enters a community largely unseen outside the island, and unfamiliar even to many Puerto Ricans. Here, growing food is intertwined with friendship, knowledge passed between generations, and the rhythms and pleasures of the natural world.

Las Jíbaras isn’t a film about retreating from modern life or offering a simple answer to its problems. Instead, it invites us to spend time with women who are already living according to a different set of priorities, and to consider what their lives might have to show us about our own.