Nicaragua Movies

An emerging crisis in one of the last remaining rainforests in Central America ignites a heroic mission in PATROL. When illegal cattle ranchers...

Humorous investigation into the shortages and problems of distribution of goods in a war-beseiged economy

Two best friends desperate for love run against time to get their men back after an unexpected switch.

This film is a modest attempt to better understand a situation that my own country's government and media have mystified and depersonalized by...

An interrogation of capitalism and the American dream through migrant labor, GPS, and dairy cows.

A colonial-era play becomes a framework for examining the backdrop of today’s political landscape.

The award-winning writer Claribel Alegría tells the story of her life, her influence in a new generation of poets and prizes like Premio Reina...

In the single-channel video performance Torita-encuetada (2023), Elyla engages in an anticolonial ceremony that evokes liberation from oppression...

A queer performance for transforming violence into healing. A traditional dance and its costumes to counter colonial legacies. A peaceful ritual for...

After finding an old watercolor of her mom surrounded by orange flowers, Haydee decides to reopen her old family nursery.

Italian priest Odorico D'Andrea arrived in Nicaragua in 1953 as a missionary of the Franciscan order; his life changed forever the small town of San...

The Waslala live in northern Nicaragua, a persecuted and overlooked people, Sandinista peasants repeatedly expelled by the army from an island in...

Film showing the political fight for decolonization in Panama.

Contra agression and its effect on the Nicaraguan population

12-year-old Edelsin Linette Mendez illuminates the consequences of climate change on the coffee market, her community's traditional source of...

This documentary narrates the birth and development of Nicaraguan cinematography through iconic images and fragments of Nicaraguan film. It covers...

Contrapeso is about a man struggling to uphold the meaningless construction of his life and whom through a mystical event, breaks the barrier...

On a trip to Waslala to visit her mother María Eufemia, Amanda seeks to reconnect with the territory that belongs to her and was taken from...

Nicaraguan women tell us about their efforts to change the society in which they live, and about their collective struggle to achieve what has been...

Poet Yolanda Rossman Tejada talks about her life and work while at home, in times of quarantine.