Costa Rica Movies

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

The film offers us the other side of the prison problem and questions the often simplistic prejudices with which we normally approach this problem.

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 to adulth...

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 198...

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...

What motivates a cock-fighter to fight a rooster he loves? In Costa Rica, cockfighting is considered a crime and has been banned for 99 years. A large...

The story tells about an older adult, who presents some health problem related to her mobility and for which she has to travel to the hospital to do r...

The silent majority is the Costa Rican peasantry, which has been the object of traditional contempt and which has manifested itself in various forms:...

María (55) is a peasant woman who maintains her plot with the help of her grandson (6),and they are harvesting the beans of the season. She lives far...

From the high mountains of Carrara marble in Italy to the coast of the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica, the documentary Polvo de Estrellas traces the spir...

Maikol Yordan (Mario Chacón) realizes his family farm is about to be sold by the bank to the evil G.F. Malavassi (Adal Ramones). So, in order to raise...

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

A heartwarming story about a soccer team from an orphanage, who want to win a championship to be able to fix their home

A short Costa Rican film

In a desolate supermarket, a religious woman's peaceful evening is interrupted by the sudden arrival of three punks, who are running away from the pol...

A 12 year-old girl finds friendship on an internet chat room with a 14 year-old boy without realizing that the boy is actually an older man who is par...

Aby, a 15-year-old Honduran immigrant, navigates life in the US alongside her newly-arrived cousin. On Thanksgiving Day, Aby's rebellious spirit clash...

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

Anahí, a girl about to turn eighteen, tries to spend her day as usual; going to school, seeing his classmates… But his friends soon realize that somet...