Mauricio Esquivel

Eva a 16-year-old girl lives with her mother, her younger sister and their cat, but wants to move in with her estranged father. Clinging onto him, she tries to balance between the tenderness and sensitivity of teenage life.

Clara, moves in with her family to an exclusive community. While Clara and her husband take part in a bizarre welcome dinner, their daughter Sofía is kidnapped. Clara decides to investigate on her own accord, just to realize that the truth is far more perverse than she could have ever imagined.

Selva, thirteen years old, discovers that when we die we just shed our skin. We can turn into wolves, goats, shadows, or anything as long as your imagination allows it.

SPERM COUNT follows Isaac, a married man, as he struggles to provide a sperm sample for a fertility test. A series of mishaps fuels his anxieties about his own masculinity, spiraling into a torrential release of his deep frustrations.

Through landscapes fueled by silence, resentment and brief moments of joy, Ale, a seventeen-year-old woman, will try to protect her two younger siblings from the seething truth, their mother has left them and is not coming back.

The land expels and the ocean drowns, departures repeat themselves in every generation. Selva dances within voices and memories; in a game that prepares her for the inevitable separation.

Lorena receives the visit of Camila, an old friend who is for a short stay in the country. Her past is back and with it her greatest fears. This visit will take her to rediscover the seemingly ideal world she has created along her husband.

Agustín, a 70-year-old retired baseball player with a serious heart problem, faces a strong dilemma: whether or not to return to the baseball field.

Seeking to save their toxic relationship, a couple decides to perform a ritual to contact the god Dionysus, but what they really summon are the violent thoughts and impulses they have repressed from each other.

In 1940, Costa Rica ever having a symphony orchestra seemed like a dream: few prepared musicians, limited resources and no music academy made it impossible to imagine. However, one was created. 75 years later one of the nation's greatest cultural institutions has overcome controvertial rennovations, economic crises and lack of leadership, yet it's always been focused on excellence. In this documentary, the glories and tribulations of The National Symphony Orchestra are examined through the voices of its protagonists.

In the early 1980s, Viviana Gallardo is a teenager growing up in a traditional middle-class family in Costa Rica. Motivated by the context of political revolutions in Central America, Viviana nurtures a strong interest in social justice and becomes involved in radical political organizing. To the surprise of those closest to her, Viviana is accused of participating in a shootout and murdering several police officers. While awaiting trial and unprotected in a cell, she is shot dead by a police officer. Years after her murder, several people close to her allege Viviana's innocence and a conspiracy involving high-ranking power figures to commit the crime.

Recently divorced, 72-year-old Violeta lives alone in her childhood house, tending to her lush tropical garden and making plans to turn her property into a boarding house. When she discovers the bank is about to take away her house, she breaks all the rules to hold onto her home and her freedom.

13-year-old Laura feels adrift in her newly stitched-together family. Just as the forests and endless palm plantations begin to feel like home, she uncovers a lurking secret that threatens the women she holds close.

Tomás misses his dad. And death, paternity, love… these concepts are mysteries that Tomás, a catholic priest, would like his father to explain him. That's why he constantly visits his tomb with hope of hearing a truth.