Costa Rica Movies

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

El Fin is comedy about the end of the world. Depressed by the recent death of his parents and losing his job, Nico; an ordinary 26 year old, decides...

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...

Three days. Three images. Three places. Three lives that could be the same but are not. I know They approach and repel each other in a continuous...

This film shows the general aspects of the school garden program carried out by the Ministry of Public Education in the country's schools. In its...

A young woman responds to her grandmother's call for help, but when she arrives at her house, everything seems to be normal.

In the midst of the civil war of 1948 in Costa Rica, after the disappearance of her parents, a young girl finds shelter in the arms of a creature...

Eric tries to keep alive a memory in which his life is questioned during a dream trip with a friend. Through a rustic mechanism built in his back...

Chunyan drifts between two worlds—her hometown of Enping, China, and her new home in Manzanillo, on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Through...

Juan Morales and his family tell us about the struggle of the artisanal miner from Abangares, popularly called Coligallero.

An elderly pianist mourns a relative for many years of his adult life. After the loss of his son Jorge, he seeks to overcome the guilt he has felt...

Maynor, a 31-year-old man, wakes up in the middle of the night with excruciating pain in his groin. Looking for a solution he will find himself in a...

In 1982 when she arrived in Paris, my Costa Rican mother sent a series of letters to her parents. Forty years later, I revisit these letters to have...

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

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...

Paul is obsessed with his neighbor across the street, "Elena." Every day he watches her through the window, while "Elena" deals with her abusive...

A mournful woman seeks redemption in a cemetery.

Dos Patrias is a lucid investigation into the Cuban reality from the personal stories of activists who confront the ruling system, and at the same...