Costa Rica Movies

What motivates a cock-fighter to fight a rooster he loves? In Costa Rica, cockfighting is considered a crime and has been banned for 99 years. A...

Daniel, who spends his days in a wheelchair, discovers that immobility can be a profound journey with a lot of movement

An experienced vampire finds another of his kind in the middle of the street drinking blood. They start a conversation that ultimately leads them to...

Lucía tells us about the day she discovered the reason for the things in her life, in a peculiar way

A couple tries to solve their conflicts (Based on Neruda's poem)

On their way to a beach party, Iván and Ramiro come across an alien along the way.

The Nicaraguan border in the eighties. Eleven-year-old Claudia and her younger sister experience the street fighting at first hand outside their car...

Make your own happiness

A 2017 animated film directed by Julian Gallese. The film screened at Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2018.

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,...

Following the 1973 coup, Clea's family had to leave Chile. Her mother ends up living in Costa Rica and her uncle in Germany. Both built their lives...

While the city remains taciturn and unmoved by those who traverse it, Felipe and Marta navigate it as best they can, slowly learning to inhabit this...

A teenager faces overwhelming absurdity.

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...

From the high mountains of Carrara marble in Italy to the coast of the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica, the documentary Polvo de Estrellas traces the...