Film Screening: Perfume de Gardenias

Join the Department of English, Center for Scholars, The Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching (CELT), The Undergraduate Activities Fund, and the The Institute for Cuban and Caribbean Studies in a screening for the Puerto Rican film, Perfume de Gardenias, and a Q&A with Director, Macha Colón. 

Perfume de Gardenias is a breakthrough film for the Puerto Rican film industry and one of the twenty-first century's most important Puerto Rican films. It tackles the social landscape of post-hurricane Maria Puerto Rico through the eyes of a group of aging Puerto Rican women, and explores Puerto Ricans’ relationship to death in the wake of the trauma of Hurricane Maria and over a decade of severe economic and political crisis.

The tagline for the film is, "After the death of her husband, a grieving elderly woman is enlisted by a coterie of gossipy elderly women in her neighborhood to plan and create custom funerals."

It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2021, won Best International Narrative at the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival in 2021, won Best Feature Narrative at the Puerto Rico International Film Festival in 2021, and spent more than 20 weeks in Puerto Rico’s Movie Theaters!