Costa Rica Movies

Christian and Antonio have been inseparable since their youth, bound by a deep friendship that hides something more. But at eighteen, a painful...

To the east of San José, in the midst of marginality, poverty and social and institutional indifference, a community of over 35,000 struggles,...

Golden Eyes is a passion project that seeks to reveal the secret life of an endangered Tree Frog species, that not long ago was believed to be...

The murder of Indigenous leader Jerhy Rivera exposes the threats facing Costa Rica’s Land Back movement.

Shadow Dwellers is a poetic wildlife documentary that explores the elusive world of Costa Rican salamanders. Through stylized cinematography and...

A Costa Rican film

Frenchman Christian Sapsizian, an Alcatel employee, admitted to offering $2.5 million in bribes to executives at the Costa Rican Electricity...

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...

In rural Costa Rica, a 95-year-old midwife passes on the wisdom of her craft to a new generation of women fighting for their right to choose how they...

At an early age, kids don't understand death

The movie addresses the theme of euthanasia. A couple meets, gets married, and lives happily until he suffers an accident and falls into a state of...

The story of a homeless woman who no longer wants to live on the streets so she can see her beautiful daughter again.

A kid suffers a violent day at school

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...

María (55) is a peasant woman who maintains her plot with the help of her grandson (6), and they are harvesting the beans of the season. She...

A woman returns to a place from her past, reflecting on how our bodies change while memories remain.

A hybrid documentary exploring the 'legacy of shame' by blurring the lines between objective documentary recording, performative reconstruction and...