Costa Rica Movies

History, work, sex, cinema, death and my older brother. An essay on what swimming pools mean in culture and the collective memories we have about them...

A Costa Rican film

The story of a young man who finds himself involved in a crisis after an event plunges him into the depths of his subconscious

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

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...

During a sweltering summer in Costa Rica in the early 2000s, Laura, a preteen soccer fan, must move to a conservative mountain town where a femicide h...

Arbitrium is becoming a popular alternative among AI Wellness Coaches. When Astrid decides to partake in this trend to confront someone from her past,...

Tonight, an ill man has to die in spite of his pregnant wife.

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 s...

A young couple lost their baby by apparent sudden death

Iraqi theater director Mohsen Sadoon Yasin has spent much of his life in involuntary exile. His daughter, Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez, has constructed a lo...

The exploration of a part of the world of drag as seen through the eyes of its queens, with their presentations, performances, experiences and especia...

Seeking to save their toxic relationship, a couple decides to perform a ritual to contact the god Dionysus, but what they really summon are the violen...

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

The memory of the body and the underground labyrinth

Set during the last days of the Vietnam War, Miles, an American soldier, tries to escape. With the company of Josiah (another soldier) and Isaac (a ph...

Adan and Byron, two indigenous people of Terraba in Costa Rica, show us the daily life and resistance of current Native American peoples, between the...

Francisco Coto was born in Alajuela in July 1924. A century later, he recalls some of his photographs in the studio he founded decades ago. Photograph...

Victoria, Susana y Marcela are already in their 40's. They feel uncertain about ther lives and their future paths