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Jurgen Ureña
Jurgen Ureña is a graduate of the Film and TV School of Veritas University (Costa Rica) and has a Master's Degree in Creative Documentary from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His short films have been screened at the Cannes, Washington, Hamburg and Cartagena film festivals, among others. His first feature film, Muñecas rusas (2014), received the Best Director Award at the Ícaro Central Ame…
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Dulce Martina · 2020Dulce Martina
2020
Movie
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.
Los Gigantes · 2023Los Gigantes
★ 2.02023
MovieDocumentaryDrama
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.
Costa Rica is Pura Vida · 2004Costa Rica is Pura Vida
2004
MovieDrama
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.
Mirages · 2006Mirages
2006
Movie
A group of colorful characters carry a mirror through the streets of San José and leave it in the Central Park of the city. A crowd moves around the mirror. A passerby shouts in front of his own image: "be attentive to what is coming!" The mirror reflects, transforms and deforms reality. Produces stories and mirages.
From Sun to Sun · 2005From Sun to Sun
2005
Movie
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.
She wore a yellow dress · 2010She wore a yellow dress
2010
Movie
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.
The Ghost Girl · 2021The Ghost Girl
2021
Movie
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.
The Eye and The LightThe Eye and The Light
Movie
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.
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