Carlos Freer

The silent majority is the Costa Rican peasantry, which has been the object of traditional contempt and which has manifested itself in various forms: unfair salary compensation, bad prices for their agricultural products, financing difficulties, land grabs, precarious housing and educational conditions. health. Precariousness, peasant migrations and the depletion of the agricultural frontier are also analyzed in the film.

This document shows the solidarity of the people and government of Costa Rica towards the people of Nicaragua in their fight against one of the most opprobrious tyrannies in Latin American history: the dictatorship of the Somoza family. It aims to point out the reasons that moved Costa Ricans to support the insurrectional feat carried out by the Nicaraguan people in their desire to achieve freedom, after 43 years of Somoza repression.

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This film shows the general aspects of the school garden program carried out by the Ministry of Public Education in the country's schools. In its development, the film shows how schoolchildren prepare the land, plant vegetables and legumes, take care of their crops and collect the harvest to, finally, consume these products in the school cafeteria. As a result of all this, the school garden becomes the “classroom” where the student learns the basic techniques of cultivating the land and the importance of good and healthy nutrition. At the same time, interest, affection and respect for farm work is awakened in the student.

This documentary, filmed at Christmas 1973, "searches" for the causes of malnutrition in the slums, in the unemployed population, in the living conditions that someone defined as "extreme misery." This approach, novel for the time, produced controversies since the trend then was to define child malnutrition solely as a medical and health problem. However, the inquisitorial camera discovered the malnourished child under the bridge, in the poor neighborhoods... in the arms of the marginalized woman. And the documentary tells us something else: as long as these living conditions persist... the cry of the malnourished child will persist.

Documentary about malnutrition in Costa Rica

This is a documentary about the situation of an indigenous Bribri family living near Salitre in Buenos Aires, Puntarenas. The film tells how this Bribri family has been losing the land that was theirs since time immemorial; it denounces the abuse suffered by the few indigenous people who still survive in Costa Rica.

In 1974, the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) began work on the Arenal hydroelectric project. As a result, two towns, Arenal and Tronadora, had to be relocated. Canto a dos pueblos is the first of three films made to record this significant event.