Costa Rica Movies

Agustín, a 70-year-old retired baseball player with a serious heart problem, faces a strong dilemma: whether or not to return to the baseball...

Gonzalo has decided to die, but before leaving he calls his son Jorge for a final movie night. There, father and son will discover the simple things...

In 1974, the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) began work on the Arenal hydroelectric project. As a result, two towns, Arenal and...

A young girl is contacted by a photographer through social networks, who offers her the possibility of some free photographs that she needs to boost...

This film was originally made for the International Conference on Human Settlements (HABITAT) which was held in Vancouver, Canada. Taking as an...

Not everything is as it seems when a child is about to bake a cake with his father.

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....

What are the social climate and cultural traditions in Costa Rica which nurture "machismo" and allow the domination of women to continue in Latin...

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,...

A group of women and men flee and protect themselves from what is out there that is stalking them. Locked up without water or food, they will have to...

The murder of Indigenous leader Jerhy Rivera exposes the threats facing Costa Rica’s Land Back movement.

"S T A I N S" is a short film composed of five short videos that use dance as a language to tell the story of a family and the generational traumas...

San Jose, Costa Rica: a city behind bars. The obsession with home safety reaches unimaginable levels in this country. Doble llave y cadena probes for...

A teenager faces overwhelming absurdism.

Abdulio is an elder man, who lives with the guilt of his daughter's death. One night he must face those fears.

It is the year 2025, and Alejandro tells his grandson Josue a story from a book that he is reading about a singer and a dancer who fell in love in...