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- A man deals with grief following the loss of his father.
- Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula, the most biologically intense place on Earth faces tourism development that threatens to destroy it, and only its local communities can save it. This film explores potential consequences of a planned international airport in the Osa Peninsula rainforest, exposes tourism impacts on previously untouched places in Costa Rica, and highlights rural community travel, a new tourism model that provides answers to the current lack of economic options facing Osa's rural communities. The film follows a single mother who mines gold for a living, and an ex-hunter who now leads wildlife treks on his rainforest property, as they launch their rural tourism projects. The film raises awareness about the negative impacts of big tourism, promotes greater cross-cultural engagement, and inspires conscious travel.
- A portrait of what exists. The appearance of the human being. Its effect on the environment, our history, present and end of the world as a step into the future. "2112 Welcome to the future" consists of seven chapters; each corresponds to a day of the week and to a word or concept that defines it. Thus, those chapters are titled Nothing, Everything, Human, History, Present, End of the World and Future.
- A Costa Trance is a film about Mike; a really smart young man in Oklahoma struggling with deep depression and suicidal thoughts. Before he kills himself he decides to take one final trip. He goes to a place he has been once before, Costa Rica. Once he arrives in Costa Rica he sees a familiar face, Shaggy. Mike continues to battle through depression but slowly gets back into the Costa Rican culture and starts surfing while experiencing the simple life.
- A tragic love story, beginning with head over heels lovers, ending in chaos and mental illness.
- A Small Section of the World is an inspirational story about a group of women from a remote farming region of Costa Rica whose ideas sparked a revolution in the coffee growing world. After the men of the village left in search of work the women came together to imagine a different future for themselves, their families and their community. The film follows the impact of this remarkable story of perseverance as it touches lives around the globe and shows how these resourceful women overcame adversity to change the culture in their small section of the world to one of prosperity and sustainability. Inspired by their story, multi-Grammy winner and the best selling female rock performer of all time, Alanis Morissette, contributed an original anthem to the film, co-written with Costa Rican artist and Grammy winner Carlos Tapado Vargas.
- Gabo and Maga are an old couple who have lived together all their life and depend emotionally on each other completely. Delia, their grand-daughter, was brought up by them. The three of them live together harmoniously in a cosy atmosphere. At the age of 27, she already has a promising career in a big company. Everything is turned upside down with Maga's sudden death just at the moment when Delia is assigned a very responsible task, the management of a major project which may launch her carer or bring it to an inglorious end. And what's more to it, in the opening of the testament it turns out that Maga had expressed the wish that her ashes be dispersed in the Caribbean. Delia is facing a serious dilemma, as in her grand-father's life there is nothing else now but the accomplishment of his companion's last wish at a time when Delia can not abandon her professional commitment for a trip to the Caribbean.
- On the day of his wife's funeral, an absent father will come to realize how hard will it be to raise his kids alone.
- Diego, a hopeless romantic desperately trying to salvage his relationship with long time girlfriend Sofía, plans a beach getaway to propose and clear the air. A 'chance' encounter with Sofía's old friend Malena will cast doubts on his relationship and skewed understanding of love, quickly turning a perfect weekend in paradise into Diego's worst nightmare.
- ADENTRO is an exquisite corpse that aims to configure a plural vision of the experiences of isolation during the first months of the pandemic. The film consists of 6 fragments directed by 6 different Latin American directors.
- It is weird how time works, doesn't it?
- A conceptual art film about intimacy
- Al Hueco is a story based on 23 works by Belgian artist Rene Magritte. Through the audiovisual adaptation of these works we will get to know our protagonist's story. One night, a man meets the beautiful woman who lives next door. From that moment on he will try to meet her by any means possible however his attempts fail time after time.
- A guy is sitting bored at a train station. He starts to draw what's around. A surprise gets his attention across the rails.
- First Web series of Firefighters of Costa Rica. These are unpublished stories that show the nature of the emergencies and unpredictable situations that daily respond to the men and women that make up the Fire Department of Costa Rica. Each episode shows the dedication, honor and discipline of these professionals, sowing in the spectator a culture of prevention.
- A lonely security guard finds more than he expected when he buys a rooster in order to get into the cockfighting game.
- This short film is about two creators, a naive inventor and a magnificent painter. The inventor gives a pigment to the painter as a present, but when the great artist uses it an enormous misfortune is caused. As a result, the inventor takes a runaway path and faces his guilt through a door of reincarnation.
- Amaurosis is a story of the psychological and emotional dilemmas of an artist (Manuel) who lost his sight in a traffic accident and flees with his only relative, a boy nicknamed Trigger.
- Sebastian dates Melissa, his ex-girlfriend, at the beach they used to go to give her some personal items. However, this moment will revive many feelings that clearly have not yet gone.
- Gaby and Marco, a young couple, end their relationship right before leaving for a European vacation together.
- How far is a grandma willing to go in order to rescue her granddaughter?
- Experimental treatment of the image depicting a given bunch of Sympathy Flowers.
- Tu angustia es mi angustia.
- Anger is a 'terrible' emotion most women are fearful of expressing. Vanessa, Ivy and Lorraine - 3 strangers from across the globe chose facades for their anger. In no time, they became slaves of the masks they put on. How long will they let anger be their master? What would it take for them to remove their masks and face themselves? When anger hails, will you let it destroy or would you harness it to create?
- By the year 2078, all animal species from the rain forest had become extinct. Only genetic samples of such species remained, stored and patented by big commercial Labs. Aiming at preserving this genetic material near its natural habitat, these Labs created a controversial project, "Zootizens", implanting such genes in the bodies of Central American citizens who were willing to be host organisms in exchange of a package of social benefits. The animation shows, documentary-style, interviews with such hybrid citizens (a Sloth, a Tapir, a forest Frog and a Glyptodon) as they tell the ups and downs of their experiences with the project.
- Costa Rican domestic animal rescuers struggle to find balance in their personal lives while dealing with the increasing daily rate of animal abuse, indifference from people and lack of financial support.