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Film
Artistically, while film is not a new medium in Costa Rica, young filmmakers have been
upping the country's ante in this arena. Over the last decade or so, a handful of Costa Ric-
an filmmakers have submitted their work for Oscar consideration, and many others have
received critical acclaim for their pictures nationally and internationally. These films range
from adaptations of Gabriel García Márquez's magical-realism novel
Del amor y otro de-
monios
(Of Love and Other Demons, 2009), directed by Hilda Hidalgo, to a comedic
coming-of-age story of young Ticos on the cusp of adulthood in contemporary Costa Rica
in
El cielo rojo
(The Red Sky, 2008), written and directed by Miguel Alejandro Gomez.
A film-festival calendar has also been blossoming in Costa Rica, though dates vary year
on year. Sponsored by the Ministerio de Cultura y Juventud, the Costa Rica Festival Inter-
nacional de Cine (
www.costaricacinefest.com
)
takes place in San José (check the website
for current dates) and features international films fitting the year's theme. The longer-run-
ning Costa Rica International Film Festival (CRIFF;
www.costaricafilmfestival.org
)
hits
Montezuma in early June, with an associated documentary film festival the week follow-
ing.
