Daniel Ross Mix

Querido Camilo

Daniel Ross Mix

Two documentary makers meet again, through a TV news show, with a friend from their youth, Camilo Mejía, the first United States soldier to fight in the Iraq War, who after being declared a deserter by the military court spent a year in prison. "Why are we here? Do we have a right to do this? Are we, at least, protecting ourselves?" The documentary finds in Mejía, an antiwar activist presently living in Miami, a reflection about the war experience.

El regreso

Hernán Jiménez

Bárbara Jimenez, Andre Boxwill

After a decade abroad, Antonio returns to Costa Rica for a short visit. Unable to run away as usual, he is confronted with everything he has desperately struggled to put in the past: a broken family, an ailing father, a violent country and long lost friends.

Italia 90

Miguel Alejandro Gomez

Daniel Campos, Fernando Bolaños

A drama that center's around 5 soccer players from Costa Rica, that qualifies for the first time to a World Cup. With no support, they must face the most important challenge ever, prepare themselves to play the first official World Cup match.

Medea

Alexandra Latishev

Javier Montenegro, Eric Calderón

María José is 25. Her life moves back and forth between the monotony of class at the university, her eternally distant parents, and a couple of alternative spaces where she can explore her own and others’ limits. One day, she meets Javier, a boy she really likes and tries to have a relationship with, but her behaviour starts changing radically. In fact, she’s a few months into her pregnancy and no one knows.

Atrás hay relámpagos

Julio Hernández Cordón

Álvaro Marenco, Adriana Alvarez

Hernandez had already made films in Guatemala and Mexico and this time found inspiring locations, unusual atmosphere and enthusiastic young people in Costa Rica. In this consciously unpolished film, the rebellious girls Sole and Ana open the trunk of a car in grandma’s garden and find something they’d rather immediately forget.

AE: Apocalypse Earth

Thunder Levin

Adrian Paul, Richard Grieco

A group of refugees from Earth land on an exotic planet, where they must fight ruthless aliens to survive.

Juimolos

Daniel Ross Mix

Guadalupe Urbina, Fernando Grillo

A documentary about Guanacaste,Costa Rica, told by six artists

Paso a paso: A sentimental journey

Daniel Ross Mix, Julio Molina

Mr. Pitters lives in a retirement home in Siquirres, a small town near Costa Rica's Caribbean coast. He is frail and blind, yet slings a guitar over his shoulder and sets out on a mission to cross town. As he meets friends who help guide his calypsonian step along the way, they recall the history of their afro-caribbean community through conversation.