When Fathers Forget
A family relationship drama about a strict father who wants to control his son, who in turn leaves his father's house and moves to the city.
Amílcar Tirado
Director
René Marqués
Writer
Casts & Crew
Also Directed by Amílcar Tirado
Presents general shots of the central mountain range of Puerto Rico.
An artistic short on the floral beauty of Puerto Rico set to folk music.
A cautionary film about what were thought to be rural superstitions and practices in Puerto Rico.
It presents the problem of physically disability through a young crippled and the attitudes of the community towards them.
A small town celebrates the triumph of their revolution. Under the euphoria of the moment, the town's founder is declared a traitor and the destruction of his statue is decided by the people. A journalist buys the statue before it is destroyed. Later, the townspeople discover that the statue isn't from who they thought it was and they decide to retrieve it. The journalist, however, doesn't want to give it back, giving rise to the dilemma.
One of the DivEdCo's films that best depicts the history and evolution of another genre of popular music from the coasts and of African origin: the plena. It presents sequences of interpreters of those rhythms in Ponce, in the dances of the coastal areas, and the fusion of popular and refined genres in presentations by Ballets de San Juan of the ballet-plena by Amaury Veray, "Cuando las mujeres" ("When the Women").
Meant to inform rural communities about the legacy of the Taínos, the indigenous inhabitants of Puerto Rico, or Borikén, as they called the island.
Field workers in Puerto Rico want to have a night school.
Zoilo Cajigas y Sotomayor is a carver of wooden models of saints. Don Zoilo is one of Puerto Rico's best-known artisans and was 96 years old at the time of the filming. The film shows the elaborate process behind his craftsmanship.
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.
