Costa Rica Movies

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

Roxanna Bonilla-Giannini explores the religious myth of Latin America: the apparition of the Virgin.

After delivering a rousing speech on immigration, Rep. Jim Coolidge goes to sleep - only to wake up on the wrong side of the border.

Filmed between 2007-2020, Between Lights Drawing Your Face unfolds as a visual essay that gently seeks to portray my grandmother Ruth Caballero de...

Gonzalo has decided to die, but before leaving he calls his son Jorge for a final movie night. There, father and son will discover the simple things...

An elderly pianist mourns a relative for many years of his adult life. After the loss of his son Jorge, he seeks to overcome the guilt he has felt...

Mr. Pitters lives in a retirement home in Siquirres, a small town near Costa Rica's Caribbean coast. He is frail and blind, yet slings a guitar over...

From the perspective of an 11-year-old boy, his sister and his mother, who in the midst of a political confrontation, try to understand the changes...

An abstractionist vid based on the movement of a mutant bumblebee on a bizarre multicoloured landscape.

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

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...

Al Hueco is a story based on 23 works by Belgian artist Rene Magritte. Through the audiovisual adaptation of these works we will get to know our...

Alicia immerses herself in a fantastic world, where she faces personal challenges and meets various eccentric characters who, through dance,...

The complexity of the Anglo Bank case still confronts those who experienced it firsthand: Was the bank's closure due to technical or political...

A teenager faces overwhelming absurdity.

Built around the most popular name in the country, the documentary narrates the stories of five women who have the same name, but who are very...

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...

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...