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Patricia's Velásquez's feature debut follows a Costa Rican boy who hopes to attend a soccerschool his family cannot afford -but that his brother is determined to sen him to by any means necessary. Two Waters is a beautiful tale of friendship and loss, moral compromises great and small, and the persistence of dreams.

Thoughtfully, lovingly, Aurora tells the story of an unwanted pregnancy. Alongside her work as an architect, 40-year-old Luisa gives inspirational creative workshops to children. One day, she comes across 17-year-old Julia by the school toilets; it turns out she has unintentionally become pregnant. Luisa decides to help her – in the process manoeuvring herself into a difficult position somewhere between friend, teacher and mother figure. Or does she secretly enjoy playing this role?

After a long period ofexile, Félix and Magui return to their country. Magui's fathers take them to one of the houses of the family. Félix resistance to adapt himself to the social reality of the country and the presence of "aliens" on the region start to trouble the chief of the family.

The Nicaraguan border in the eighties. Eleven-year-old Claudia and her younger sister experience the street fighting at first hand outside their car window. Their parents are Sandinista activists and, although the family is now escaping to neighbouring Costa Rica, the struggle continues. Their parents fire off terse commands and the girls are packed off to their relatives. The film focuses on the point of view of the two sisters, who are very close, as they learn more than they are able to cope with, but too little really to understand. A revolutionary struggle, seen through the eyes of children.

Alejandra and Joaquín are a couple marked by his ups and downs. His emotional instability has left him unemployed again, which has made the relationship even more complicated. Alejandra does not understand why everything is so difficult for her husband, nor the reasons for his unhappiness, when he seems to have everything.

Following an clever plan to emigrate to the United States, a group of boys from peasant families in the southern part of Costa Rica pretends to be a soccer team and ventures to participate in the prestigious Dallas Cup, in the United States. Years later, the exercise of narrating this great little feat allows some of its protagonists to reflect on its meaning.