The Ghost Girl

The Ghost Girl 2021

1

A girl regularly leaves food at the door of her grandfather's room, who is ill. One day the grandfather does not open the door. Then the girl decides to enter.

2021

Gregorio

Gregorio 2021

1

One morning, after a restless sleep, Gregorio wakes up a generous conversationalist who shares some of his biggest secrets.

2021

Ways of Fishing

Ways of Fishing 2022

1

A boat crossing the Caribbean Sea. On board, Willem Dafoe opens a briefcase that casts a golden glow on Christopher Walken's face. In a fit of ambition, Walken snatches up a swordfish and plunges it into Dafoe's abdomen, causing him to writhe in pain. In his death throes, Dafoe grabs another swordfish and lops off Walken's head. As he descends into the deep sea, Walken's head will discover that ambition always knocks twice.

2022

The Loves of a Witch

The Loves of a Witch 2023

1

At night, in front of a small Caribbean house, a sign advertises a repair service for the husband. Inside, a witch and her apprentice try without success with the repairman on duty: an excessively pale man with a Chaplinesque mustache. When the witch decides to go to sleep, irritated by her failure, the apprentice tries to demonstrate her skills with the help of a necklace, an old record player, and some dance steps.

2023

Costa Rica is Pura Vida

Costa Rica is Pura Vida 2004

1

On a night like any other, a homeless person listens to a presidential speech offering housing to those who need it. The next day he wakes up in a strange and radiant city. During the afternoon, a builder raises the facade of his long-awaited house. Only the facade.

2004

She wore a yellow dress

She wore a yellow dress 2010

1

San José of Costa Rica, beginning of the XXI century. A man with the appearance of an office worker travels alone in a train car. He accompanies his loneliness with an old tie until a woman in a yellow dress sits in front of him. Then a game full of curiosity, of small and unexpected disagreements, of closeness and silences begins between the two.

2010

The Eye and The Light

The Eye and The Light 1970

1

Francisco Coto was born in Alajuela in July 1924. A century later, he recalls some of his photographs in the studio he founded decades ago. Photographs like those that bring to the present the eruptions of the Irazú volcano, which began in March 1963, or the visit of John F. Kennedy during that same year, allowing us to see Costa Rica's recent history through different eyes.

1970

Los Gigantes

Los Gigantes 2023

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Around a campfire in the Ngäbere language, Major Francisco Rodríguez tells the Ngäbe-Buglé community of La Casona the mythical story of "Los gigantes". His words merge with the recreation of the story, starring three women from different generations and some other people from that indigenous community, which inhabits the border territory between Costa Rica and Panama.

2023

Dulce Martina

Dulce Martina 2020

1

An unemployed journalist during her quarantine finds a job option on the cam girl platforms, but a phone call from her daughter will make her reconsider that decision.

2020

The tired skin

The tired skin 2009

1

A seven-year-old boy awakens when a voice announces that his father is suffering from a sudden illness. His modest daily life is then transformed by visions of a giant mosquito, masked sprayers producing thick smoke screens, and a woman who distributes warnings throughout the neighborhood.

2009

From Sun to Sun

From Sun to Sun 2005

1

She wakes up slowly, confused between the caress of her husband and the sound of the radio. A moment later she gets up, tidies up the house, takes a bath, has breakfast, and leaves for work. In the afternoon she returns, prepares dinner and wakes up her husband. He helps her with some chores, takes a bath, eats and goes out to work. The story is too common. Like them, thousands of couples cross and estrange away, day after day.

2005