Costa Rica

Sol Carballo in Memories of Burning body

Memories of a Burning Body (2024) by Costa Rican director Antonella Sudasassi Furniss

The Costa Rican submission to the 97th Academy Awards for ‘Best International Feature’ is Antonella Sudasassi Furniss’s moving fictional documentary ‘Memories of a Burning Body’, which will be screened at the BFI London Film…

In-depth Interviews

CLARA SOLA (2021) by Swedish/Costa Rican director Nathalie Álvarez Mesén

The film Clara Sola (2021)which will be on general release from November 18-2022, first opened at the Cannes Director’s Fortnight in July 2021 and has already received 17 wins and 20 nominations. After being in the Dare Strand at…

This Latino Week...

Don Chezina, Wisin and Jon Z will put you on the beat of "3G

In the firstly, Wisin has united his voice to that of the Puerto Ricans Don Chezina and Jon Z for a new song that promises to make all reggaeton lovers to dance.

Features

Costa Rica: Religious Extremism Becomes Election Favourite

The April 4 runoff vote for president is likely to be won by an evangelical singer

Culture Guides

5 SIGHTS OF SOUTH AMERICA YOU WON'T FORGET

Bored of beaches, banal museums and grotty hotels? Want to do something different this time you go away? South America harbours some of the most breath-taking natural phenomena in the entire world. No tour guide needed, just a…

Features

Not So ‘Pura Vida’

Sun and sea yes, but sex tourism, in Costa Rica? Behind the image of the Caribbean’s cleanest and most civilised tourist hotspot, lies a murky world, fed by foreign sex tourists, of exploitation and poverty.