Antonio Yglesias

La segua (1984)

Encarnacion is a beautiful villager and Petronila is her jealous, evil nemesis. When Petronila's love interest, a fetching young Spanish lieutenant, starts to fall for Encarnacion, Petronila gets even by simply destroying his sanity with a vile potion. Pet ...

The Uprising (1980)

In Nicaragua, 1977, corruption and abuse of power are everyday occurrences under the Somoza family's dictatorship. Eruptions of violence lead to a civil war, which the Sandinista revolutionaries win – at least for the time being. Against this backdrop, t ...

Costa Rica Banana Republic (1979)

This film was originally made for the International Conference on Human Settlements (HABITAT) which was held in Vancouver, Canada. Taking as an example the production and marketing of bananas and the prevailing conditions in the world market - dominated by ...

Nicaragua: Free Homeland or Death? (1978)

A documentary on the F.S.L.N. and its struggle against the Somoza dictatorship. ...

Los Presos (1975)

The film offers us the other side of the prison problem and questions the often simplistic prejudices with which we normally approach this problem. ...

A propósito de la mujer (1975)

It is based on real testimonies of six women from different social strata that reflect the misery, anger, repressed and silent suffering, as well as the illusion, the dream and the ideal. ...

La cultura del guaro (1974)

Puerto Limón - Mayo 1974 (1974)

"Man will reach the moon first, before the highway reaches here, to Limón," said the governor of the province of Limón, in 1928. ...

La Mayoría Silenciosa (1974)

The silent majority is the Costa Rican peasantry, which has been the object of traditional contempt and which has manifested itself in various forms: unfair salary compensation, bad prices for their agricultural products, financing difficulties, land grabs ...

Desnutrición (1974)

This documentary, filmed at Christmas 1973, "searches" for the causes of malnutrition in the slums, in the unemployed population, in the living conditions that someone defined as "extreme misery." This approach, novel for the time, produced controversies s ...

Para qué tractores sin violines (1974)

The film gives us an idea of how the Youth Symphony Orchestra operates, which was created taking into account a young member and a future violinist named Iván, who alternates soccer with violin exercises. ...

Agonía en la Montaña (1973)

The film is a call of conscience about the disappearance of forests in the country. Great industrial needs have created a greater demand for wood, the necessary expansion of livestock and agriculture is causing the destruction of forests in regions where o ...

Recuperación de la montaña (1973)

This film presents three possible techniques or methods that make it possible to meet the growing demand for wood without the country becoming a desert: spontaneous reforestation, carried out by the country's youth, technical and commercial plantation, and ...

Vamos a la Huerta (1973)

This film shows the general aspects of the school garden program carried out by the Ministry of Public Education in the country's schools. In its development, the film shows how schoolchildren prepare the land, plant vegetables and legumes, take care of th ...

Moon Landing (2020)

Nel is a 10-year-old astronaut-to-be who has lots of moles and wants to go to the moon. He undertakes an odyssey in a fair to reach the closest point to the stars, but this is not an easy task for a being that moves at a quarter of the speed of the others. ...

About Us (2016)

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 casual encounter with Sofía's old friend Malena will cast doubts on his relationship and skew ...