Discoveries from Costa Rica World Cinema

Documentary of several refugees from Nicaragua in Costa Rica.

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

This documentary, filmed at Christmas 1973, "searches" for the causes of malnutrition in the slums, in the unemployed population, in the living conditions that someone defined as "extreme misery." This approach, novel for the time, produced controversies since the trend then was to define child malnutrition solely as a medical and health problem. However, the inquisitorial camera discovered the malnourished child under the bridge, in the poor neighborhoods... in the arms of the marginalized woman. And the documentary tells us something else: as long as these living conditions persist... the cry of the malnourished child will persist.

A cinematographic production (1984) by filmmaker Mercedes Ramírez A. the first filmmaker who speaks in the first person as a woman in Costa Rican cinema, documenting the great Costa Rican artist Emilia Prieto Tugores born 1902-1986, political activist, defender of the rights of workers, painter, engraver, singer-songwriter, writer, researcher of the folklore of the Central Valley of Costa Rica, one of the most notable intellectuals of the 20th century.

At an early age, kids don't understand death

Deborah didn't plan to become a famous blues, jazz and rock singer in Argentina, but she did, yet ironically in her home country Costa Rica, hardly anyone knows about her.

A delivery man is entangled in a crime case

This documentary that tells the story of traditional funerals that exist in a rural area of ​​Costa Rica. Explore aspects such as prayers, food, clothing, and others

An intimate portrait of those who preserve the past and present of the Guarqueña culture, fighting against a globalizing modernity that ostracizes them

Sacramento Villegas, one of the Costa Rican composers from Guanacaste who has had the most influence on the music of his region but who has gone unnoticed for many years. This work gives a voice to the communities that keep the memory of Sacramento Villegas alive, including the work of his granddaughter, Nelly Juárez Villegas, with the music duo Nelly x Arend

Raza Bronze is a band founded in 1997, which shows that despite having little it is always possible to achieve goals through persistence

Juan Morales and his family tell us about the struggle of the artisanal miner from Abangares, popularly called Coligallero.

A stimulus can act as an uninvited lure. Consciousness travels the grooves printed on the body. The starting point for navigating memory-space seems to be found in those inadvertent fissures.

Filmed between 2007-2020, Between Lights Drawing Your Face unfolds as a visual essay that gently seeks to portray my grandmother Ruth Caballero de Saco during everyday moments wrapped in nostalgia and uncertainty. Between fleeting rays and foreign shadows, his figure becomes discernible before my lens, the collage of formats (Super 8mm, Hi-8, Mini DV) illuminating his life in full, from his childhood on the island of Cuba to his exodus to the United States and all that that transition entailed.

Documentary that narrates the life of trans women who live on the Pacific Coast, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, one of the provinces most abandoned by the country's government. The documentary portrays these women's struggle with their mental health as they try to survive in a world that constantly violates them.

An artisanal fisherman and diver recounts his life in relationship with the sea, before retiring and then Forty years of clandestinely diving in the waters of the Pacific.

It records the zarzuela of the same name, by the maestro Alcides Prado, and it is a costumbrista fresco from Costa Rica from the beginning of the 20th century.

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