Costa Rica Movies

Follows soccer player Shirley Cruz, who returns to Costa Rica to play with Liga Deportiva Alajuelense, her childhood team. After living abroad for...

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

A politically twisted surfing/travelogue documentary on Costa Rica. A funny, satirically-spinning doc, with great footage of surfers in the wash. A...

Isolina is a beautiful woman who attracts Sabaneros. She has a kind of amulet that heals the men of the solitudes in the extensive Guanacaste pampas....

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...

In a rural Costa Rican village, José Blas—known as “El Moto”—falls in love with Cundila, the daughter of a powerful...

In 2018, the Nicaraguan police brutally repressed anti-government protests organised by high school students. K., a 17-year-old girl who was...

Nina and Laura are a couple whose four year-old son Mateo has just died. Laura moves back to Chile seeking the comfort of her family while Nina,...

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

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

A naive village girl leaves for city during transitional times for Costa Rica.

After his alcoholic father's death, a young man decides to sell the last memory of him — his taxi.

Soledad tries to remember her childhood. At 9 years old, when she discovers that she is in love with her cousin Juan, she begins to live an intense...

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...

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

Keyla is a beautiful young woman trying to get over a disturbing episode from her past. Unfortunately, her step dad's visits and the usual male...

A night in the life of Juan, a middle-class man from San José, Costa Rica, accustomed to his urban, civilized life in the capital. He has to...

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

From a virtual space, two young people seek connection in the middle of a city confined during the pandemic. Subject to the exposure of their private...