José Chisco Arce

Gonzalo has decided to die, but before leaving he calls his son Jorge for a final movie night. There, father and son will discover the simple things they kept hidden for many years.

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.

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.

When a mysterious light invades socially awkward Lila, she encounters its source: a cyborg who comes to remind her who she was in a past life.

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.

Tony Martinez, a young man, returns to Costa Rica from a stint in a reformatory with the dream of break dancing and rejoining his working class community, while trying to avoid being drawn in by the local gangs.

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

태양풍이 강타한 중앙아메리카에는 사상 초유의 정전 사태가 5일이나 지속된다. 불시착으로 큰 상처를 입은 파일럿, 병원에서 위기를 겪는 딸을 찾아 먼 길을 떠난 할머니와 손자, 고층 고급 아파트에 갇힌 주인과 가정부, 15세 생일을 망치게 된 소녀 등 모두 이 위기의 상황을 헤쳐 나가기 위해 고군분투한다. 코스타리카, 엘살바도르, 과테말라, 온두라스, 니카라과, 파나마의 감독들이 의기투합한 6개국 공동제작 옴니버스 영화로, 정전을 모티브로 어둠 끝에는 항상 빛이 찾아온다는 삶의 진실을 따뜻한 시선으로 바라본다.

Every December 25, in Zapote, the popular festivities of the city of San José begin, where the most important bullfights in Costa Rica take place. These parties are attended each year by men and women called improvised bullfighters who spontaneously give the public their joy and passion. The ring of the Fiestas de Zapote is the stage where Laisa, Pity and Cuchufleta not only face the bull, but through each of their feats in the ring, they try to define their masculinity.

Hernandez had already made films in Guatemala and Mexico and this time found inspiring locations, unusual atmosphere and enthusiastic young people in Costa Rica. In this consciously unpolished film, the rebellious girls Sole and Ana open the trunk of a car in grandma’s garden and find something they’d rather immediately forget.

In San Juan, Puerto Rico, hundreds of artists gathered to pay honor to the work of Puerto Rican artist Myrna Báez. La otra intención (The Other Intention) is an observational documentary that travels through the work of Myrna while visiting artists, such as Petra Bravo, Deborah Hunt, Yiyo Tirado, Gustavo Castrodad, the theater group Y no había luz, among others, to accompany them in their creative process of re-interpretation.

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.