Nicaragua Movies

Historical documentary about popular Sandinista insurrection in Nicaragua, 1978.

Sofia, a young trumpeter, prepares herself for the reunion with her childhood friend Paula. But fearing that their bond may have faded, Sofia...

A queer performance for transforming violence into healing. A traditional dance and its costumes to counter colonial legacies. A peaceful ritual for...

La Paz del Futuro is a film about the personal, political and artistic journey of Janet Pavone, an American muralist who joined the Sandinista...

A family is torn apart by the conflict in Nicaragua, leaving brother fighting brother and illustrating religious manipulation, male chauvinism and...

Documentary about the participation of women in the Nicaraguan Revolution.

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

Poet Yolanda Rossman Tejada talks about her life and work while at home, in times of quarantine.

Compilation of 18 animated short films made by Spanish-speaking artists from around the world for the Filmoteca Maldita Short Film Festival. This...

Nicaraguan women tell us about their efforts to change the society in which they live, and about their collective struggle to achieve what has been...

12-year-old Edelsin Linette Mendez illuminates the consequences of climate change on the coffee market, her community's traditional source of...

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...

An interrogation of capitalism and the American dream through migrant labor, GPS, and dairy cows.

A documentary about Monimbo, a town in Nicaragua.

A film tribute to the founder of the FSLN: Carlos Fonseca Amador.

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

A short documentary, inspired by Eduardo Galeano: a short trip in rhythms, sounds and atmospheres in a cuban cigar factory in Estelí,...

After finding an old watercolor of her mom surrounded by orange flowers, Haydee decides to reopen her old family nursery.

Italian priest Odorico D'Andrea arrived in Nicaragua in 1953 as a missionary of the Franciscan order; his life changed forever the small town of San...