Costa Rica Movies

Through landscapes fueled by silence, resentment and brief moments of joy, Ale, a seventeen-year-old woman, will try to protect her two younger...

In a small mountain house, under the law of the Christian Holy Family, a mother and her two children live in confinement forced by her husband, but...

Following an clever plan to emigrate to the United States, a group of boys from peasant families in the southern part of Costa Rica pretends to be a...

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

Motherly love and the unbreakable bond of family fuse the lives of director Laura Ángel Córdoba, her mother Liliana and autistic...

What are the social climate and cultural traditions in Costa Rica which nurture "machismo" and allow the domination of women to continue in Latin...

A group of women and men flee and protect themselves from what is out there that is stalking them. Locked up without water or food, they will have to...

Years after immigrating to the United States, Matt (Gabriel Berm) grapples with the notion of family. A call from his sister, Callie (Callie Morken),...

A mother lives with her daughter who has drug addiction problems, to the point that she steals items from the house to consume crack, in addition to...

short Costa Rican drama

This film was originally made for the International Conference on Human Settlements (HABITAT) which was held in Vancouver, Canada.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

For her entire professional life, renowned ecologist Nalini Nadkarni pioneered climbing techniques to study "what grows back” after an...

In 2018, a lesbian woman, a gay man and a transgender woman became the first people in the history of Costa Rica to campaign openly for LGBTIQ+...

A mother and her son talk while while driving in her car

The story of a young man who finds himself involved in a crisis after an event plunges him into the depths of his subconscious

This documentary tells the story of eight characters who narrate how they escaped and fled their country

Andres Alfaro is an ex-agent from Intervention Special Units. After he inherites a property from his father and refuses to sell it, his daughter will...