International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival brings a slate of Puerto Rican films to New York. Highlights include:

La espera despera (Hopeful Hopeless)
This comedic heist movie follows hapless Jorge, who tries to rob a bank to pay for his wife's surgery. Things do not go as planned. 

Por amor en el Caserio
A Romeo and Juliet story set amongst feuding drug gangs in Puerto Rico.

New York: Nov. 12 - 16. Full lineup and details here.