Movies: Divedco

A dramatization of the way a group of rural people resolve their issues with an authoritarian town leader....

Prize winner, Venice Festival 1956. The DivEdCo’s most important attempt to depict women’s rights in the context of modernization processes in Puerto Rico. Modesta leads a group of women in Barrio Sonadora, Guaynabo, in a strike against their husband...

A melodramatic romance that tells the story of a community that shuns the arrival of a new neighbor....

The film recreates the miracle of the birth of Jesus in a Puerto Rican field. It begins with the pilgrimage of Mary and Joseph, the birth of Jesus, and the arrival of the Three Kings....

A cautionary film about what were thought to be rural superstitions and practices in Puerto Rico....

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Adapted from Mexico's "The Forgotten Village". It deals with the fight that develops from the superstitious and ignorant interpretation of a problem and its real, scientific solution....

A man believes all the advertising he hears....

A couple in love listens to Roque Navarro and his group interpret several romantic melodies....

It tells the story of a slave rebellion on a sugar plantation in the days leading up to the official abolition of slavery on the island on March 22, 1873....

Biographical documentary on the life and work of Pedro Flores, internationally renowned Puerto Rican musician....

Tells the story about a boy with a mental handicap. It was conceived as teaching tools to inform parents about the issues that they faced when confronted with the health and well-being of their children and of their right to social services....

A group of kids in a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican rural town need money to purchase baseball uniforms for little league....

The Cordillera de Puerto Rico is presented while Gala Hernández and his group, together with Juaniquillo, perform melodies as part of a traditional Puerto Rican Christmas party....

The story of a couple who wish to marry, but have no money to build a house. A neighbor recommends that they go by the community asking for cooperation, getting everyone to contribute....

A generational conflict is reflected in the old-fashioned ideas of the landowner, who imposes himself as a dominant figure in the political activity of the rural communities of Puerto Rico....

It presents the problem of physically disability through a young crippled and the attitudes of the community towards them....

Educational documentary which extols the different forms of labor, and its importance to Puerto Rico’s progress....

Meant to inform rural communities about the legacy of the Taínos, the indigenous inhabitants of Puerto Rico, or Borikén, as they called the island....

Documentary on Puerto Rican pianist Elisa Tavárez....