Set against a Puerto Rico still reeling from the devastation of Hurricane María, Raisa Bonnet ’s debut feature “Braided” (“Trenzadas”) brings a ground-level perspective to a national trauma whose aftershocks continue to shape the island’s social fabric.

Screening this week in Ventana Sur ’s rough cut Primer Corte, the drama is produced by La Nauta and Belle Films. It turns on a mother and her two daughters forced to navigate displacement, fractured identity, and the fragile decision to remain in their home when many were compelled to abandon.

Bonnet traces the origins of the project to the months immediately after the hurricane, when communication collapsed and Puerto Ricans returned overnight to pre-digital routines. “We were left without communication across the island, no signal,

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