Costa Rica Movies

In this 16 mm feature film, the journalist Miguel Salguero portrays the adventures of a group of people who make a bet and undertake a risky trip by...

In her store“Hipnos”, Elena buys and sells dreams for those looking for an escape. On what seems like any other day, Elena encounters a...

Each fishing trip lasts a month and Elí's body accumulates the illness inherited from those hard days. Your body is another gear that wears...

In Costa Rica, the family of Melba (65) and Víctor (70) has sheltered over 130 children in the last 40 years. Today, some of them seek paths...

Abril is a sharp-tongued, exhausted social worker whose life is held together by caregiving, obligation, and a constant state of emotional triage....

Story of a peasant boy isolated from civilization, but with an idea stuck between his chest and back: to become a marathon runner

Around a campfire in the Ngäbere language, Major Francisco Rodríguez tells the Ngäbe-Buglé community of La Casona the...

A studio photographer in the midst of a complicated divorce tells stories of heartbreak, drinking and loss to his teenage son, slowly revealing his...

Alejandra and Joaquín are a couple marked by his ups and downs. His emotional instability has left him unemployed again, which has made the...

Nel is a 10-year-old astronaut-to-be who has lots of moles and wants to go to the moon. He undertakes an odyssey in a fair to reach the closest point...

Felipe returns to the family farm for the anniversary of his father's death, where his mother Sandra, brother Sebastián, and young nephew...

A 19th century drummer nicknamed “Hedgehog” is part of an anachronistic military expedition composed of a quixotic general and three...

After years studying in Europe, Elsa returns to Costa Rica to reunite with her family. She finds her younger sister living alone in the family home,...

What is the middle class? Is it a set of encyclopedias, the tupper ware in the freezer, tha family vacation, working as a babysittter? Is it...

My grandfather, married for 57 years in Costa Rica, died in a fire in 2019. My father revealed to me that, like myself, my grandfather was gay. After...

After being harassed as a child for her fear of water, Esther's dream of being a "mermaid is saved. Years later, her friends accompany her to perform...

An experimental film that weaves the intimate thoughts of one woman (Ikwé) with the teachings of her grandmother, the Moon, creating a surreal...

Born into the Chinese community in Costa Rica, filmmaker Nicole Chi Amén was never able to communicate with her grandmother Guián, who...