Costa Rica Movies

A group of students live together in an apartment while the "Semana U" (University Week) takes place at the University of Costa Rica—a time for...

A recently divorced dad loses his job and must take care of his daughter and try to keep in her the illusion of Christmas so he accepts a job as...

Compilation of 18 animated short films made by Spanish-speaking artists from around the world for the Filmoteca Maldita Short Film Festival. This...

In film everything is absence. Ghosts are projected in a space and time that don't exist. Absent antagonisms make sense in front of ephemeral...

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...

Thoughtfully, lovingly, Aurora tells the story of an unwanted pregnancy. Alongside her work as an architect, 40-year-old Luisa gives inspirational...

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

Raised in a repressive era where sexuality was taboo, Ana, Patricia, and Mayela found their understanding of womanhood based on unspoken rules and...

Three girls are for their mother, very close and familiar and a source of constant mystery all at the same time. While trying to understand them she...

The film presents various aspects of prostitutes' lives in Costa Rica. Several prostitutes and some "protectors" agreed to offer a confession about...

María Finojosa, wife of Spanish settler Juan de Cervantes, tunes into the fragile memory of the exact moment when her husband became obsessed...

Andrea, her daughter Alex and her fish are moving out of the city. Andrea wants to brings them together despite the tensions, Alex does not speak,...

History, work, sex, cinema, death and my older brother. An essay on what swimming pools mean in culture and the collective memories we have about...

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...

The film follows two 12-year-old girls who are forced to run away from their homes after a traumatic incident. Trapped in a spiral of escape,...

A 12 year-old girl finds friendship on an internet chat room with a 14 year-old boy without realizing that the boy is actually an older man who is...

This film was originally made for the International Conference on Human Settlements (HABITAT) which was held in Vancouver, Canada.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

A day in a retirement home.

Each fishing trip lasts a month and Elí's body accumulates the illness inherited from those hard days. Your body is another gear that wears...

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