Costa Rica Movies

More than 70 years ago Giorgio Motta's grandfather and uncle arrived in Costa Rica from Italy. With their hands they built the building that houses...

Documentary about malnutrition in Costa Rica

When you look into the screen, it is possible to believe that the images that are projected on it come from within us. The images captivate, but even...

A grieving witch escapes to a cabin alone to give birth.

A street dweller tries to convince a group of people waiting for the bus to give him some money.

After his alcoholic father's death, a young man decides to sell the last memory of him — his taxi.

According to the words of J.L. Borges in his work “A History of Eternity”, “eternity is a simpler and more magical thing: it is the...

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

María is in conflict with herself. While putting on some make-up she struggles with the beauty canons and the way she sees herself.

A politically twisted surfing/travelogue documentary on Costa Rica. A funny, satirically-spinning doc, with great footage of surfers in the wash. A...

At the dawn of Independence, our society desperately seeks a way out of the economic and social confinement that the Spanish colony has imposed on...

"S T A I N S" is a short film composed of five short videos that use dance as a language to tell the story of a family and the generational traumas...

In the early 1980s, Viviana Gallardo is a teenager growing up in a traditional middle-class family in Costa Rica. Motivated by the context of...

A modern dancer must learn to juggle love, family, and her career while she auditions for a prestigious foreign dance company.

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

“Man will reach the moon first, before the highway reaches here, to Limón,” said the governor of the province of Limón, in...

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...