Costa Rica Movies

A mournful woman seeks redemption in a cemetery.

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 2018, a lesbian woman, a gay man and a transgender woman became the first people in the history of Costa Rica to campaign openly for LGBTIQ+...

A mother and her son talk while while driving in her car

A stimulus can act as an uninvited lure. Consciousness travels the grooves printed on the body. The starting point for navigating memory-space seems...

Ernesto and Ignacio are two brothers who find themselves facing each other in the national table tennis finals. They play overwhelmed by memories of...

Scientists and philosophers work to understand animal vision in this multi textured rumination exploring our relationship to the nonhuman world.

Two friends who are partners in home video production see an opportunity to make money in an eco-friendly video contest. In the process their...

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...

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

Ana has been married for 30 years when she meets by accident the only love she ever had. The impact of this encounter makes her become aware of what...

Thoughtfully, lovingly, Aurora tells the story of an unwanted pregnancy. Alongside her work as an architect, 40-year-old Luisa gives inspirational...

short Costa Rican drama

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,...

This documentary, filmed at Christmas 1973, "searches" for the causes of malnutrition in the slums, in the unemployed population, in the living...

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...

A group of street racers reflect on their passion and addiction to compete between each other on the roads of Costa Rica.

The Invisible is a brief trek through Haiti a month after the catastrophe of January 12, 2010. Via songs and instants of day-to-day life in the city...

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