Costa Rica Movies

Federico and German were best friends, fighting the dictatorship and looking for freedom together. Years later Federico and his wife are movie...

For her entire professional life, renowned ecologist Nalini Nadkarni pioneered climbing techniques to study "what grows back” after an...

After having rescued her family's farm in the first film, Maikol Yordan faces a difficult situation. His beloved grandmother Dona Mila suffers a...

Antonio and Alberto live in a world without water. Facing his brother's illness, Antonio climbs to the top of the volcano in search of the holy water...

Upon entering a house, Simón decides to explore it; however, he realizes that he is not as alone as he thought.

What does a couple do when they find out that they might be pregnant?

Short Costa Rica documentary

Surrounded by old toys and distant memories, Alicia loses the notion of time in the house she grew up in. As the ghosts of her past confront her,...

To the east of San José, in the midst of marginality, poverty and social and institutional indifference, a community of over 35,000 struggles,...

Through the quiet rhythms of everyday life and her imagination, Chunyan drifts between two worlds—her hometown of Enping, China, and her new...

A 2017 animated film directed by Julian Gallese. The film screened at Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2018.

Juan Morales and his family tell us about the struggle of the artisanal miner from Abangares, popularly called Coligallero.

Following an clever plan to emigrate to the United States, a group of boys from peasant families in the southern part of Costa Rica pretends to be a...

In a country with no numerical system for street addresses, a young woman explores the unique system that has taken hold, and the prospect of its...

Through landscapes fueled by silence, resentment and brief moments of joy, Ale, a seventeen-year-old woman, will try to protect her two younger...

As a result of a domestic accident, my grandmother started being monitored at home. Day and night cameras record her movements, interfering with her...

After a youth marked by limitations, Vilma (45) has finally achieved the privileged life she always dreamed of. In a beachfront house located in one...

A woman becomes embroiled in a life-or-death struggle after kidnappers spirit her away to a remote area of Costa Rica.

Compilation of 18 animated short films made by Spanish-speaking artists from around the world for the Filmoteca Maldita Short Film Festival. This...