Nicaragua Movies

Lina wants to become an animal and is willing to try it. Eduardo wants to tame her but can't. Primal Force explores the limits of a couple unable to...

A colonial-era play becomes a framework for examining the backdrop of today’s political landscape.

Contrapeso is about a man struggling to uphold the meaningless construction of his life and whom through a mystical event, breaks the barrier...

Short film with footage of the Vietnam and USA war

In 2018, the Nicaraguan police brutally repressed anti-government protests organised by high school students. K., a 17-year-old girl who was...

First sandinist noticiero

On a trip to Waslala to visit her mother María Eufemia, Amanda seeks to reconnect with the territory that belongs to her and was taken from...

The award-winning writer Claribel Alegría tells the story of her life, her influence in a new generation of poets and prizes like Premio Reina...

This feature documentary gives voice to the Creole people from Nicaragua and Costa Rica who have lived in resistance to colonialism, and now struggle...

An older man and his dog walk around the neighborhood.

Humorous investigation into the shortages and problems of distribution of goods in a war-beseiged economy

This film is a modest attempt to better understand a situation that my own country's government and media have mystified and depersonalized by...

Shot over the course of seven years Clean Hands documents the human drama, personal struggle, innocence, and salvation of one family in Nicaragua...

Filmed in black and white with no spoken dialogue, the story follows a young girl named Alenka, who wanders through rural Nicaragua carrying a white...

Nicaragua land of lakes and volcanoes and this video will show you the most touristic places in Nicaragua, among them stand out the city of Leon, El...

An unintentional irregularity of a clip from Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog).

In the single-channel video performance Torita-encuetada (2023), Elyla engages in an anticolonial ceremony that evokes liberation from oppression...

The Waslala live in northern Nicaragua, a persecuted and overlooked people, Sandinista peasants repeatedly expelled by the army from an island in...