Más Que un Café

(Stronger Than Coffee)

2023

With cameras in hand, five Costa Rican women reveal what it means—and what it takes—to be coffee producers in an industry that often makes them invisible. Stronger Than Coffee (Más que un café ) is a series of five short films about the women who grow the world's coffee, told entirely in their own voices.

Meet The Filmmakers

Reborn from Coffee

Ericka Mora Blanco

Ericka is forced to undergo a personal transformation after being diagnosed with cancer. Along the way, her coffee business teaches her important life lessons.

Connect with Ericka's business, Café E y F 

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 I am a Coffee Farmer

Arleen Jiménez

With stunning imagery of her family's coffee business, Arleen explores coffee's unique seasons from a woman's perspective.

​Connect with Arleen's business, Microbeneficio La Angostura León Cortés

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Taking Flight

María Jiménez

María has always admired butterflies, which she pays tribute to in poetic imagery that shares their relation to coffee.

​Connect with María's business, Microbeneficio La Angostura León Cortés

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The Girl in the Yellow Dress

Margoth Rivera

On the day of her sixth-grade graduation, a girl is told by her principal to stop going to school. Margoth writes the girl a letter sharing her advice. 

​Connect with Margoth's business, Aromas de la Legua

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Harvesting Dreams

Tatiana Vargas

After losing her father, Don Gerardo, Taty and her mother grieve by nurturing the family's coffee business.

​Connect with Taty's business, Legados Costa Rica

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For more information, check out the film’s website at strongerthancoffee.org