Costa Rica Movies

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

Images of the transfer of power between Presidents Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno and Alfredo González Flores. Don Ricardo Jiménez...

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....

VILMA lives alone, enjoying the luxury she dreamed of while caretaking an American's vacation home on an exclusive Costa Rican beach. Her fragile...

A kid suffers a violent day at school

Through the quiet rhythms of everyday life and her imagination, Chunyan drifts between two worlds—her hometown of Enping, China, and her new...

A man tries to understand why the stars went out

Set during the last days of the Vietnam War, Miles, an American soldier, tries to escape. With the company of Josiah (another soldier) and Isaac (a...

For her entire professional life, renowned ecologist Nalini Nadkarni pioneered climbing techniques to study "what grows back” after an...

This film was originally made for the International Conference on Human Settlements (HABITAT) which was held in Vancouver, Canada.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

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...

Documentary that narrates the life of trans women who live on the Pacific Coast, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, one of the provinces most abandoned by the...

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

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...

Crispy is lost in the woods while searching for Marco, his lifelong friend. When they finally meet, Marco realizes that he will not survive and gives...

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...

Javier has been an absent father in his son Emiliano’s life. After years of promising him a trip to the mountains, Javier finally takes him....

A short Costa Rican film