Dulce Martina

Hold Me Like Before

Verónica is driven by a need to help people. When a cab she is riding in hits street kid Tato, she immediately brings him home and tends to his injuries. Her roommate Greta thinks Tato is trouble, but Verónica only sees someone in need of a hand.

Los Gigantes

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.

Bugs of Light

Max, Álex, and Jaime decide to camp near the summit of the Irazú Volcano with the purpose of testing the telescope they inherited from Fidel. However, whether by whims of quantum physics or simply because the stars don’t always align as we wish, the night, the conversation, and the music lead the friends down unexpected paths.

She wore a yellow dress

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

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.

Mirages

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.

The Eye and The Light

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.

The Loves of a Witch

At night, in front of a small Caribbean house, a sign advertises a repair service for the husband. Inside, a witch and her apprentice try without success with the repairman on duty: an excessively pale man with a Chaplinesque mustache. When the witch decides to go to sleep, irritated by her failure, the apprentice tries to demonstrate her skills with the help of a necklace, an old record player, and some dance steps.

From Sun to Sun

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.

The tired skin

A seven-year-old boy awakens when a voice announces that his father is suffering from a sudden illness. His modest daily life is then transformed by visions of a giant mosquito, masked sprayers producing thick smoke screens, and a woman who distributes warnings throughout the neighborhood.

Costa Rica is Pura Vida

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.

Ways of Fishing

A boat crossing the Caribbean Sea. On board, Willem Dafoe opens a briefcase that casts a golden glow on Christopher Walken's face. In a fit of ambition, Walken snatches up a swordfish and plunges it into Dafoe's abdomen, causing him to writhe in pain. In his death throes, Dafoe grabs another swordfish and lops off Walken's head. As he descends into the deep sea, Walken's head will discover that ambition always knocks twice.

Variaciones sobre un mismo crimen

A cinephile falls asleep during a projection and reality starts to confuse with dreams

Gregorio

One morning, after a restless sleep, Gregorio wakes up a generous conversationalist who shares some of his biggest secrets.

Russian Dolls

Luisa and Antonio surrender to the game of keeping tricks up their sleeves, of disagreements and reconciliations. Luisa follows with curiosity the thread of the words while Antonio imagines a movie inhabited by Elsa and Miguel: some fictional characters blurred in the middle of a deep sentimental crisis; a he and a she confused and lost in the rainy labyrinth that sometimes we call love.

The Adventures of André and Wally B.

There's nothing like a restful nap in a pleasant wooded valley. But when André awakens and is greeted by a pesky yellow-and-black striped insect with a nasty stinger, he ends up taking a quick (and painful) hike.

Luxo Jr.

A baby lamp finds a ball to play with and it's all fun and games until the ball bursts. Just when the elder Luxo thinks his kid will settle down for a bit, Luxo Jr. finds a ball ten times bigger.

Red's Dream

Life as the sole sale item in the clearance corner of Eben's Bikes can get lonely. So Red, a unicycle, dreams up a clown owner and his own juggling act that steals the show. But all too soon, the applause turns into the sound of rainfall, as reality rushes back. Red must resign himself to sitting in the corner and await his fate.

Tin Toy

Babies are hardly monster-like, unless you're a toy. After escaping a drooling baby, Tinny realizes that he wants to be played with after all. But in the amount of time it takes him to discover this, the baby's attention moves on to other things only an infant could find interesting.

Knick Knack

Life on a shelf as a snowman trapped in a snow-globe blizzard can become wearing, especially when you're surrounded by knickknacks from sunnier locales. When the jaded snowman finally breaks free of his glass house, his vacation plans are cut short.

Geri's Game

An aging codger named Geri plays a daylong game of chess in the park against himself. Somehow, he begins losing to his livelier opponent. But just when the game's nearly over, Geri manages to turn the tables.

For the Birds

One by one, a flock of small birds perches on a telephone wire. Sitting close together has problems enough, and then comes along a large dopey bird that tries to join them. The birds of a feather can't help but make fun of him - and their clique mentality proves embarrassing in the end.

Mike's New Car

Mike discovers that being the top-ranking laugh collector at Monsters, Inc. has its benefits – in particular, earning enough money to buy a six-wheel-drive car that's loaded with gadgets. That new-car smell doesn't last long enough, however, as Sulley jump-starts an ill-fated road test that teaches Mike the true meaning of buyer's remorse.

Jack-Jack Attack

The Parrs' baby Jack-Jack is thought to be normal, not having any super-powers like his parents or siblings. But when an outsider is hired to watch him, Jack-Jack shows his true potential.