Costa Rica Movies

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

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...

For Alejandro, judo is more than just a sport: it’s a chance to represent Costa Rica at the Olympic Games. As he trains to face his rivals on...

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...

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

When Claire, a sophisticated wine expert, travels to Costa Rica, her carefully ordered world collides with Alex, a passionate coffee producer deeply...

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

short Costa Rican drama

SPERM COUNT follows Isaac, a married man, as he struggles to provide a sperm sample for a fertility test. A series of mishaps fuels his anxieties...

A football coach is frustrase by his team's performance in a cup final.

Amaurosis is a story of the psychological and emotional dilemmas of an artist (Manuel) who lost his sight in a traffic accident and flees with his...

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

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

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...

These houses are built in the very center of these neighborhoods and have been surrounded with walls and bars, where before they were spaces for...

After a long life as a devoted wife and homemaker, Cuca (70) is confronted with her husband’s death. The news brings relatives and neighbors to...

Nerves, lost condoms, and a maze of identical houses—Javier’s first time with Michel turns into a gauntlet of masculinity, where every...

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