Ecuadorian movies
These are the most important films from Ecuador, they are not very famous outside. Try to get them and wacth them.
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- DirectorMateo HerreraStarsCecilia VallejoEnrique AcostaLady EstrellaJessica is a rebellious 17-year-old living with her aunt and grandmother in Quito. Her absent mother has stopped sending money, causing rifts within the family. When she decides to search for the father she's never met, she ends up in the country home of her father's brother and his wife, where the mirrors are always covered and the air is thick with fog and mystery. An atmospheric blend of magical realism and traditional horror, this film was a triumph for the Ecuadorian film industry, winning the Grand Prix at the Toulouse Film Festival.
- DirectorMateo HerreraStarsCristian Patricio ArroyoNatalia MendozaJuan Francisco RacinesAlthough their ideological, social and economic differences, Christian and Juan Fernando have been able to maintain a strong friendship since childhood.
- DirectorMateo HerreraStarsJuan Francisco RacinesJulia SilvaKonrad HellwigThe story of the relationship between two upper-class, wild, Ecuadorian teenagers.
- DirectorSebastián CorderoStarsJohn LeguizamoAlfred MolinaLeonor WatlingA suspense thriller about a reporter from Miami who travels to Ecuador in pursuit of a serial killer known as the "Monster of Babahoyo."
- DirectorSebastián CorderoStarsCarlos ValenciaMarco BustosCristina DávilaThe world of Salvador, a young and naive petty thief is changed by the arrival of his cousin Angel, an ex-convict in search of easy money, and with a hideout. Salvador gets wrapped up in Angel's twisted dealings in an attempt to escape from his suffocating family, dragging along his family and friends, in his criminal path. Where will this all lead?
- DirectorSebastián CorderoStarsMarieta CastilloAndrés CrespoAlejandro FajardoBlaquito is thirty years old and lives with his mother in El Matal, a small fishing village on the coast of Ecuador. One day, the beach turns up filled with cocaine packets. Blanquito, along with his friend Lorna, decide to travel to Guayaquil, where people will pay five times more per package. Little does Blanquito realize that in the days that follow he will be staring at death in the eye and losing his head for love.
- DirectorTania HermidaStarsTania MartinezCecilia VallejoPancho AguirreEsperanza and Tristeza both have to get to Cuenca. However, by an unlucky turn of events, the bus they are on gets delayed due to a worker strike. Taking their journey into their own hands, they decide to hitchhike to Cuenca. Along the way they meet interesting characters who help them re-evaluate the purpose of their journey.
- DirectorFernando MielesStarsPeki AndinoAndrés CrespoAlejandro FajardoIn an unknown first world airport the arrival of an ecuadorian flight is heard. The 'members of the European Union' passby migration, while the 'others', in the other line, wait. In the middle of the claims, a group of ecuadorians is arrested. They are taken to the Room, where they wait to be deported. Seems like everyone hides something, like PROMETEO the youn magician with his hands tied like a delinquent who has a 'magical' trunk as luggage. Time passes, a way of being, Ecuador happens in this waiting room. Seems like there is no possible exit. Meanwhile, a different but well-known way of life takes place. The only thing left as a promising way out is illusion.
- DirectorDaniel AndradeAnahí HoeneisenStarsNicolás AndradeAnahí HoeneisenAmaia MerinoOne day five women from Quito, friends in their teens, decide to get back together after fourteen years. Helena is waiting for her second child, Marina lives the ups and downs of infidelity, Diana, an early widow, shares her loneliness with her 15 year old daughter and Tamara has not abandoned the random life of nightclubs, men and drugs. The purpose of their get-together is to visit their old classmate, Alejandra, who is consumed by an illness. "Esas No Son Penas" is a portrait of the group, in which each person brings the lights and shadows of her paradoxical middle clas sstatus in a city nestled in the Andes. At that meeting, fortuitous and unusual, these women teter to-and-fro between guilt and hope, loneliness and comradarie - a tapestry of emotions exploding in the middle of the apparent routine of everyday life.
- DirectorDavid Nieto WenzellStarsNicolás AndradeAnahí HoeneisenNoelia NotoAurora, a divorced woman, receives a call from her 14 year old son's principal to let her know that he is being expelled on the last day of class. In an attempt to reach her son, she fights to fulfill her duties as a publicist, daughter, sister, and single mother. Meanwhile, her son deals with the insecurities of growing up. A chaotic city and an outdated education system trap mother and son in an increasingly impersonal world.
- DirectorCamilo LuzuriagaStarsLissette CabreraRossana IturraldeVerónica GarcíaThe wild and wanton Francisca, known as the "The Tigress," is the eldest of three sisters, who are bosses of a farm in Ecuador. A medicine man tells Francisca and Juliana that their youngest sister Sara must remain a virgin to protect their land. A travelling salesman, engaged to Sara, tells the police that she is being kept locked up by her older sisters.
- DirectorCamilo LuzuriagaStarsFelipe TeranAristides VargasLissette CabreraAn author gets lost between the book he is writing and the reality and a love that does not exist and the ideals of revolution.
- DirectorCamilo LuzuriagaStarsJosé AlvearJosé ArlearGiselle CalderónThe plot is based on the book by Juan Valdano, and revolves around the events that took place in the city of Quito between August 10, 1809, when the First Cry of Independence took place in the Spanish colony of the Presidency of Quito, and on August 2, 1810, when the Massacre of the Próceres occurred in the hands of the peninsular authorities.
- DirectorJuan Esteban CorderoViviana CorderoStarsJuan Esteban CorderoViviana CorderoA group of musicians move to a ranch in order to capture the sound of the Andes in their first disc.
- DirectorViviana CorderoStarsSegundo BenitzVela Juana GuardenerasPablo HanibalWhen a new priest arrives in a small Andean village, the lives of its inhabitants begin to change.
- DirectorVíctor ArreguiStarsLuis CañizaresRandi KrarupDavid Nieto WenzellA murder sets in motion a series of tragedies that find their way to the city morgue's Dr. Arturo Fernandez. Physically and emotionally isolated, Arturo develops an intimate relationship with the personal lives of his cases, forcing him to confront his connection to the living and the dead. This dark, serpentine tale offers a richly textured rendering of Ecuador's capital.
- DirectorVíctor ArreguiStarsGalo BetancourtDaniel BustamanteAlejandro CruzJuan dreams to escape from his country and its problems.
- DirectorJavier AndradeStarsFrancisco SavinovichVictor ArauzLeovanna OrlandiniPaco Chavez's life is careless and charming. It's a life of illicit drugs and a forbidden love affair he carries with Lucia, his former high school sweetheart, now married to another man. One night, Paco and his younger brother Luis, enter their parent's home to steal a porcelain horse to pawn in order to score more drugs. Their father catches them and a fight ensues. The consequences of that fight will haunt both brothers forever.
- DirectorTito JaraStarsJenny NavaGabino TorresLily AlejandraThe statue of the Virgin that crowns "The Panecillo" looks and smiles to the north of the city, home to wealthier people, in the south, where most of its inhabitants are the most poor, they only see her back. "Behind Your Back" is the story of Jorge Chicaiza Cisneros (Jordi), a young man working at a bank in Quito and whose main concern in life is to forget and hide his humble origins in the poor neighborhoods of the south city and his mestizo racial reality. His economic capacity, as a son of a migrant mother allows, him to change his name to Jordi Lamotta Cisneros, likewise change his home residence and activities. He likes wearing designer clothes, partying and spends all his moderate salary to car tuning. All this in order to impress the middle class of the northern part of the city and gain their acceptance, yet he knows he will never become part of the high social circles because as a mestizo. Jordi meets Greta by coincidence, a Colombian girl who has come to Ecuador to make a living, and later her corruptive best friend Yahaira. Greta has a secret affair with the nephew of the owner of the same bank where Jordi works, Luis Alberto Granada de la Roca, an ordinary marketing engineer which hides a series of dirty deals behind the work assigned by his uncle. Jordi, Greta, Yahaira, Luis Alberto, a strange lawyer, The Progressive Bank and the Virgin of The Panecillo, casually intertwine their lives in search of money, power and acceptance; in the process, they'll discover hidden realities and other accepted with resignation by Ecuadorian society.
- DirectorIván Mora ManzanoStarsEnzo MacchiavelloAndres Troya HolstPaola BaldionThe portrait of an invisible generation. A punk ballad told from the point of view of 10 youngsters with stories that interconnect, not with their destinies but with their concepts: the trip as a way of reinvention, questioning happiness and the system, evasion, moral limits, madness, decadence and love.
- DirectorCarlos Naranjo EstrellaStarsHéctor AlterioConcha CuetosÓscar LadoireA bus called Sueños (Dreams) links three modern-day tales set in exotic Ecuador - the equator-straddling country that calls itself "The Middle of the World." Each of these stories carries a woman's name, and each features a mysterious, alluring female outsider who bewitches men. In the first tale, a blonde woman with an unclear past arrives in a remote, male-deprived Andean town and offers piano lessons, only to become the focus of wild rumors and innuendo. In the second, a married college professor who is haunted by nightmares becomes obsessed with a beguiling woman who seems to be sending him an ominous message. In the final story, a couple vacationing at a jungle resort refuse to believe in the ancient myths of Ecuador, but are forced to confront the legendary Guasangó.
- DirectorTito MolinaStarsBertha NaranjoNey MoreiraMartín RodríguezAfter the death of her husband, silence and loneliness reign in this old lady's house. She made routine her best friend and faith her shelter. Only in her dreams she runs away from those four walls to a timeless magic land where the sea speaks without using words. Her days go by like this, between the real life and dreams, until a street dog comes to her door
- DirectorMaria GarciaA dark political thriller with satirical edges. In a fictional country plagued by bureaucratic corruption, a rebellious government employee, known as Citizen 31X, refuses to comply with the system. When a new government regime enters with promises of change but ultimately fails to follow through, she comes up with a solution of her own: kill corrupt officials and purge the system.
- DirectorJhonny ObandoStarsMaría Isabel Díaz LagoGledys IbarraAlexander EstrellaJuan Aguirre and Ferney Daza, two sociopaths, embark on a journey from Florida to California in the United States with the intention to end their lives in a place called the end of the world. The journey will bring new hopes, challenges, friends, fights between them and ambiguous situations, that will make doubt about the purpose of their trip and psychology of life. The movie end up in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
- DirectorAlberto Pablo RiveraStarsAxel AmadorAndres GarzonAlberto Pablo RiveraTwo best friends take a trip to Montanita where they have an epic party. The events later that night will change them forever.
- DirectorMiguel AlvearStarsAndrés CrespoIs there an audience for Latin American movies? These are some of the questions posed by an Ecuadorian filmmaker whose latest movie was a commercial flop. He embarks on a query to find answers to his questions and relief for his despair. His research leads him to a giant contraband market in the port city of Guayaquil, where pirated movies from all over the world are sold for one dollar each. Here, he discovers a number of Ecuadorian low budget movies produced by amateurs, with titles he had never heard of before: from action packed productions to evangelical melodramas.
- DirectorCarla Valencia
- DirectorMaría Fernanda RestrepoThe history about the family of Restrepo brothers and what they're doing until nowadays for solve the mystery of the dissapearence of the Restrepo brothers made by the "Ecuador's National Police"
- DirectorAlfredo León LeónStarsPamela CortesAlfredo EspinosaPaul LalaleoBelieving that military experience will make him a strong and respected man, Jorge, a young Ecuadorian, joins the armed forces in the midst of his country's 1941 border war with Peru. Captured and imprisoned by enemy forces and given up for dead, Jorge faces neglect, hunger, and, possibly, even death as he recovers from his injuries. He will soon have to choose between escaping with fellow prisoner Hugo or staying at the camp under the care of the Peruvian nurse Dolores, with whom he's fallen in love.
- DirectorDario AguirreMy father Cesar thought I was going to take over his grill restaurant in Ecuador, but I decided to pursue art instead and went to Germany. Ten years later he calls me to let me know that his restaurant is bankrupt, that he has not paid the rent in over two years and is in debt to the bank. After years of no contact, saving the restaurant becomes our joint project. Cesar's Grill tells the story of my return to Ecuador, where I, the vegetarian son, try to solve the problems of my passionately carnivorous father. What starts out as an absurd mission, develops to be a touching story about unfulfilled expectations, becoming an adult and responsibility for each other.
- DirectorLisandra RiveraManolo SarmientoThe yet unexplained death of Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós in 1981 leads to a reflection on how official truth determines our present.
- DirectorViviana CorderoStarsVanessa AlvarioAna María BalarezoNadia Acevedo CorderoIn order to help her brothers and mother, Lucia is forced to thieve.
- DirectorDaniel AndradeAnahí HoeneisenStarsAndres AlvaresAndres AlvarezNicolás AndradePablo, Andres and Juan, get into their biggest teenager adventure, when Juan decides to run away from home. He is not willing to go back because his father, an old fashioned policeman, wants to change him to a military school. After a car accident, Pablo flees, never to return. 15 years later, he comes back to Ecuador to face what he left in the past. OCHENTAYSIETE is a drama about friendship and forgiveness, a movie that shows the innocence of adolescent friendship and its maturation process.
- DirectorSebastián CorderoStarsDaniel Adum GilbertVictor ArauzDiego CatañoEverything begins with a stray bullet... And a wealthy young man trying to evict 250 families who are squatting on the land he inherited from his father. The leader of the squatter settlement is ready to negotiate, knowing that an eviction will not happen without blood. Suspecting a betrayal, the dwellers voice their concern. SIN MUERTOS NO HAY CARNAVAL portrays the city of Guayaquil through all its social strata, full of latent tensions that can only be resolved through violence. SIN MUERTOS NO HAY CARNAVAL (2016) is Sebastián Cordero's sixth feature film. It's an Ecuadorian-Mexican- German co-production, entirely shot on location in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
- DirectorDiego AraujoStarsJuan ArreguiElena VargasCristina MorrisonA drama set in turbulent, turn-of-the-millennium Ecuador and centered on a young man who begins to develop complicated feelings for Juano after he saves him from a beating.
- DirectorAna Cristina BarragánStarsMacarena AriasPablo Aguirre AndradeAmaia MerinoAlba, an 11 year old girl, has to move to her father's house due to her mother's illness. She barely knows him and sharing time with him at home feels weird. Both are shy, both feel lonely but they can't find a way to approach each other.
- DirectorJoe HoulbergStarsIvan AlzateAna Cristina BarragánFernanda BarragánSara is 23 years old and is blind. One morning she goes to her country house accompanied by her boyfriend Jose Luis, her cousin Carolina and her boyfriend Pedro. At first the trip seems to be quite fun, but there is a strange energy in this country house as a result of a very dark past. As time goes by, the truth begins to unfold, and the intentions of each of the characters engages them in unexpected carnal desires. All this happens around Sara's blindness.
- DirectorCatalina Arango CadavidStarsGabriel AmpueroGiovanna AndradeCielo Mendoza ApoloAntonia is a little photographer. She likes to capture special moments with her camera and she will spend her vacations with her grandparents. Although she go to the beaches with her dog who isn't very happy about it, Mario her grandfather, is a very quiet man, and he will help her study math. This vacations seems to be destined to be a failure, but it all will change when Mario give her a peculiar present, an old Polaroid camera. New friends, adventures, paint wars, ghosts and much more.
- DirectorCésar IzurietaJuan Fernando MoscosoStarsSilvio VillagómezJose Luís VergaraEnrique CarvajalQuito 2023 is a thriller/Sci-Fi feature film that focuses on the Ecuadorian capital, some years from now. After several internal political problems, a coup has left the country under military control. Quito is the last frontier, the city has been completely fenced, enclosed and sheltered. The film starts from this point and focuses on two locations only. One, the palace where the General Ponce, a cynical and cunning man who runs the party, and is in charge of the city. The second, the headquarters of a group of young revolutionaries led by Marcos and Santiago, two guys with completely different visions. Marcosis hungry for power and strength. The other, his buddy Santiago, a man that has lost all hope for a better tomorrow. The film, without any political agenda, focuses on the hours before the revolutionaries make their last attack with the goal of overthrowing the tyranny that surrounds the city. These two places and characters are woven together to tell a story that is directly based on dialog rather than in action, in which the attitude of each one of them is analyzed, between ambition, power, humility and faith of those who expect a better future. The conclusion is that this is perhaps not more than another case of a social upheaval in Latin America, where there is really no solution in a region characterized by high ungovernability and the ingenuity of his own people.
- DirectorJosué MirandaStarsPatricia GuillénMichelle PrendesCeleste SantillánMiranda, a lesbian photographer from Guayaquil living in Buenos Aires returns to Ecuador for an exhibition of her work. Magdalena, a simple girl after a big fight with her boyfriend decides to go party with Monica, her best friend, little she knew that night she would meet Miranda, a woman that will change the way she concieve her life.
- DirectorLeonard ZeligStarsMaría Elisa CamargoErin FogelRoberto ManriqueRubén has three months to live or, probably, one year and a half with treatment. After a very complex process he decides to kill himself, before the cancer start showing symptoms. In "Translucido" we will be witnesses of his fate.
- DirectorVíctor ArreguiStarsChristoph BaumannFrancisco Febres CorderoMaría Gracia OmegnaElena, daughter of a businessman, returns to Ecuador at the request of her sick father. There he meets a childhood friend, Galo, and begins to collaborate with him in tasks of organization of human rights for the indigenous communities.
- DirectorAlex SchlenkerDiego Coral LópezStarsChristoph BaumannGonzalo EstupiñanJorge Alejandro FeganBernardo lives under the shadow of his mother. Kurt proposes to him to rob Bernardo's bank to buy the Third Reich's currency. On the same day that Bernardo does it, Hitler's regime falls and its currency becomes worthless.
- DirectorJuan Carlos Donoso GómezStarsPia AguirreGloria ArcosJessica BarahonaMiguel is a 17 year-old boy that sees the future as a distant horizon, immersed in his bubble of friends and a sketchbook full of sentimental poems. 'Saudade' is the portrait of a threshold: the end of high school, which we experience through Miguel. Set amidst the backdrop of the Ecuadorian economic crisis of 1999, 'Saudade' tackles notions of economic dislocation, friendship, family and young love while juxtaposing the crumbling of Miguel's life, against the crumbling of his country.
- DirectorFernando Mieles
- DirectorNitsy Grau CrespoStarsJose Andres CaballeroPaoming CamchongEdison CarreraInspired by the brief and yet intense life of Ecuadorian poet Medardo Ángel Silva, this movie reveals intimate details of one of the most important Guayaquilean writers of 19th century: his passionate and deep poetry, his strong attraction towards death, his impossible love for a 15 year old young woman and his continual conflict with an hypocritical and conservative society.
- DirectorJuan Sebastian JacomeStarsJimmy David SuarezLuis Antonio GottiVictoria GrecoTito, a lonely albino decides to travel across Central America to participate in a bowling tournament. His stubborn and ill father insists on accompanying and supporting him for the first time in decades. The journey will force the father and son to confront the reasons behind why they have not talked to or seen each other for so many years.
- DirectorCamilo LuzuriagaStarsValentina PachecoMarilú VacaLuis VivancoAfter being sent abroad at the tender age of eight, Virginia returns to Quito, her birthplace, twenty-five years later. She is finally reunited with her widowed father and her fraternal twin sister, Manuela. Her sister lives in their parents' house with her husband and two sons while her father vegetates in a retirement home. She confides to her sister that living in New York and the separation from her family has caused her to find affection in troubled love affairs, but Manuela has secrets of her own.
- DirectorManuel CalistoAlex CisnerosStarsManuel CalistoAlex CisnerosSonia ValdezTwo inseparable friends. Martin is a bureaucrat who seeks to overcome every day, even though deep down he knows he will never leave his office desk. Daniel is a womanizer unstable without goals, but with a mathematical gift.
- DirectorMaría Victoria MenisStarsPablo Aguirre AndradeEmanuela GavazzaLucía Ruiz OrtizMARIA AND SPIDER is the story of Maria, a thirteen year old girl who lives in a Buenos Aires shantytown whit her grandmother and her obscure partner. Candidate for a scholarship to continue her education, Maria is finishing primary school, while working on the subway.
- DirectorCarl WestStarsMartha SalasMarcela CamposMabel Cabrera
- DirectorDario AguirreSince more than ten years Dario lives between two different worlds, Germany and Ecuador. He decides to make an extraordinary journey, trying to find himself. The adventure into the unknown begins at the moment when he tries to find answers on the internet. Searching for his name he becomes aware that he is not the only Dario Aguirre, as he once thought, but that there are hundreds of people with the same name. Foreseeing that this perhaps could be a clue to finding his identity, Dario writes mails and letters to many of them, with the intention of learning more about their lives and visiting them. Five Dario Aguirres answer him and invite him to their homes, From now on, for all, a reconcilement begins: with their past lives, the present and the point of view of their wives.
- DirectorPablo Arturo SuarezStarsAlfredo EspinozaBeatriz VergaraMaría Josefina ViteriIts not about secrets, is hiding them.
- DirectorRodolfo MuñozA portrait of singer Julio Jaramillo, who became a larger than life star in Latin America .
- DirectorMicaela RuedaStarsSamanta CaicedoMaria Juliana RangelDiego NaranjoLoner Sara is in her last year of high school and is miserable. Shunned by the girls in her class for being "weird," she spends her lunches smoking in secret behind the school. That is, until the new girl, Andrea, finds her.
- DirectorRyan KillackeyStarsOtobo BaihuaRyan KillackeyDesperate conservationists struggle against oil interests as native people in the heart of Ecuadorian Amazon vie to preserve their culture. A filmmaker-biologist reveals the rich biodiversity in peril and those who call it home.
- DirectorTania HermidaStarsEva Mayu Mecham BenavidesMarkus Mecham BenavidesMartina LeónIt's the summer of 1976. Manuela is a nine year old girl who's caught in between her communist and atheist father and her grandmother, a catholic and conservative woman. They both dispute the right to define her name and, with it, her role inside the familiar universe. It will be her encounter with with her crazy uncle, hidden in the library of the family's farmhouse (where he has dedicated himself to freeing the words) that will wake up her need to go through mirrors, transforming forever her relationship with language and names, including her own.
- DirectorGalo SemblantesStarsJanos MoriczStanley HallPetronio JaramilloA Hungarian explorer claims to have discovered a "Gold Library" inside a cave. Lacking evidence, he tries to get the recognition he believes he deserves but struggles to get support from the local governments and religious leaders.
- DirectorGabriel Paez HernandezIsabel Rodas LeónStarsCarolina Lozada CalleCarolina LozadaRosario MacasTwenty two year old Ismael only thinks about traveling to the US. He grows up with the love and care of his grandmother Mariana, a midwife and ancestral healer, after his parents emigrated from Ecuador. After Ismael agrees on a price with the coyote to be smuggled northward, his best friend Luz returns to Ecuador after eight years of living abroad. Luz's perspective fills Ismael with doubts about his decision to immigrate. The two friends criss cross the Andes by car, along the way they meet various characters and are exposed to stories and legends that will raise troubling questions for Ismael about his destiny.
- DirectorJhonny ObandoStarsJulio CoutinhoScarlet GruberKarin FarfanEdilson's car had broken down in a beautiful little town (Mount Dora) on his way to a cousin's wedding where he will meet a lot of explosive, original, funny and weird characters. But besides them he will meet Elizabeth, an angel who will change his life forever.
- DirectorJavier IzquierdoStarsAlfredo EspinosaA Secret in the Box is a documentary that explores the life and works of Marcelo Chiriboga (1933-1990), internationally known Ecuadorian writer, member of the "boom" generation (Garcia Márquez, Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes), who remains unknown in his country until today.
- DirectorJorge HerreraJorge HerreraStarsYoraisi GómezLuis Alberto GarcíaLourdes TorresBarbara is about to travel to Spain for an exhibition of her paintings. The night before starting her journey there is a hurricane and she has to stay in a nightclub until the morning. During the night she comes into contact with different people who have a variety of conflicts and interests. She is drawn into this microcosm which seems to be a reflection of Cuban society today.
- DirectorMiguel GarzonAn epic journey into the depths of the underworld and the depths within ourselves.
- DirectorBernardo Cañizares EsguerraStarsAlejandro BuenaventuraJuan Ricardo GomezCarolina PiechesteinSet in the impressive mountain and coastal scenery of the Andean region, this film tells the story of Ana helping her grandfather escape from a psychiatric hospital to fulfill his last wish.
- DirectorXiana YagoStarsMaria CarnicerMaria, a young Spanish doctor, works in a maternity hospital in the Ecuadorian rain forest. She is shocked about the premature pregnancies and the violence women in Ecuador have to face. She meets Mishell, an adolescent abused by her father, and Yanina, a woman who decides to perform a clandestine abortion. Maria discovers that behind unintended pregnancies often hides sexual violence.
- DirectorBeatriz PalaciosJorge Sanjinés
- DirectorTomás AstudilloStarsRafael CorreaBeyond being a historical record this film explores the implied duality of Rafael Correa's public figure. The behind-the-scenes 2013 presidential re-election race, in campaign-distant black and white invites us to reflect on Ecuador's way of doing politics.
- DirectorCarlos Andrés VeraIn 2003, around 30 women and children Taromenane were killed in the Ecuadorian forest. TAROMENANI explores the causes of the slaughter and its connections to the killing of missionaries and the attacks on timber workers.
- DirectorRodolfo MuñozA history about what happened the september 30th, with Rafael Correa (himself) and other affected people that'll tell us about what happened this fatidic day.
- DirectorGabriela CalvacheLabranza oculta (The silent walls) is a documentary about those who build history behind walls of silence. The workers restoring the seventeenth-century Alabado House surprise and charm us by telling their tales, sharing their dreams and aspirations. We accompany their daily routine: molding the bricks and cutting the cane with the methods of seventeenth-century builders. As witnesses to these personal stories, we travel into the lives of the forgotten. It reminds us that history is built by people, the anonymous mass that sweats and toils.
- DirectorMarcelo CastilloYakuaya is a nonverbal documentary film dealing with the trickling down of water and life. The documentary follows the journey of a drop of water from birth on a glacier until it reaches the sea.
- DirectorMateo HerreraStarsLorena CisnerosBoris IdrovoJorge NuñezThe documentary chronicles the 139 years of occupation that had the ex penal García Moreno and traces left by the inmates to be transferred to the new prison in the Sierra Norte in the province of Cotopaxi.
- DirectorMateo HerreraStarsLuis LaraRaul LaraRaul Lara, Ecuadorian luthier works around seven months in the construction of each instrument. Sometimes staying for four consecutive months inside his workshop, place in which time and space are surreal. The guitar becomes alive and receives its soul in here.
- DirectorYanara Guayasamín
- DirectorYanara GuayasamínStarsFidel Castro
- DirectorAitor MerinoAmaia MerinoStarsAsier ArangurenJuan Diego BottoPilar CastroAsier and I grew up in the Basque Country. One day he disappeared and I found out he had joined ETA. How could I explain the reasons that led Asier to make a decision, which even I had trouble grasping?
- DirectorIris DisseThe documentary 'Times are changing' has been filmed in the Latin American countries Mexico, Panama, The Andes and in the rain forest of the countries Peru and Ecuador.
- DirectorPablo MogrovejoNovember 7th, 2001. After a seventy years absence, the Ecuadorian national soccer team is close to qualifying for the first time to a Soccer World Cup. This documentary follows the events that took place during that historic date, when a whole country lived under the shadow of a soccer game. From a psychiatric hospital to a public jail, from the soccer field at the stadium to a beach on the Pacific Ocean, and from the streets of New York to the freeways of Miami, Ecuador versus the rest of the world gathers the show and the emotion of a country willing to change all its frustrations by one single illusion: the goal.
- DirectorJavier AndradeThis Kickstarter-funded film is a compelling story about Grammy-winning Venezuelan funksters Los Amigos Invisibles, from their early days playing in Caracas, Venezuela, to being discovered by David Byrne of Talking Heads and their rise to international stardom. The viewer experiences their story as it intertwines with a live performance filmed at the Highline Ballroom in New York City in March 2011. The band, with the same original 6 members, celebrates 20 years in 2011. The film has 600 backers from countries as diverse as Venezuela, Australia, Spain, Ecuador, Chile, Peru, France, Switzerland and the USA.
- DirectorIván Mora ManzanoStarsAlejandra CormanAlejandro FajardoPablo LópezYellow sunglasses is a tragicomic look at Julia's universe and her quest to find her own intimate reinvention.
- DirectorDiego AraujoStarsVictor ArauzDaniela RoepkeMarla XavieraAfraid to face upcoming parenthood and the ultimate deadline for his long-awaited novel, a once-promising writer develops a crush on a defiant muse, the 16-year-old girl next door, and escapes into a second adolescence, alienating his partner and those who care about him before finally coming to terms with adulthood.
- DirectorBetty BastidasStarsAnibal ChalaUlises De La CruzCarlos MaldonadoDreamTown follows Anibal Chala, a rural Afro-Ecuadorian boy who strives against all odds to make it to the professional soccer leagues.
- DirectorSandino BurbanoA beggar and a butcher fight for the Princess and the Queen of Spain's love. These characters, without their awareness, will access a place denied for them because of their ethnic and social status.
- DirectorPável Quevedo UllauriBeyond the punches, boxing paints a complex portrait of life itself - its obstacles, the discipline, the commitment. With the stories of a child aspiring boxer, and a young amateur boxer, the film weaves a tale about the triumph of human spirit both in ring and in life.
- DirectorIván Mora ManzanoA meeting between the daughter and the grandmother, at a time when the memories of the girl's, were taking shape, and the grandmother's, were vanishing. This starting point is used as a pretext to talk about the importance of memory
- DirectorLibertad GillsEngabao, a fishing commune in Ecuador, has historically been a site of land struggle between inhabitants and wealthy businessmen that threaten to convert collective lands into private property.
- DirectorMateo Herrera
- DirectorOliver Lee GarlandEcuadorian athlete Millán Ludeña, embarks on his new adventure to be the first athlete to register a new Guinness World Record for his beloved country.
- DirectorJuan Sebastian JacomeStarsSamanta CaicedoDiego NaranjoJuana EstrellaAs Cotopaxi spews ash, issuing an eerie penumbra over Quito, a young woman confronts dormant familial conflicts. Desperate for a place to store her things as volcanic disaster looms, Caridad turns to her long-estranged father Galo for help. Galo abandoned Caridad's mother long ago and is eager to make amends, but questions concerning the nature of his transgressions linger, straining communication between father and daughter and casting grave doubts over the possibility of reconciliation.
- DirectorGabriela CalvacheStarsNoëlle SchönwaldCristian MercadoJaime TamarizShe is the perfect woman until she decides to be free.
- DirectorViviana CorderoStarsJoaquín WappensteinMaría Teresa GuerreroPedro SaadMateo (20) suffers epileptic seizures almost daily. His life is a blend of habitual routines and the dreamlike world he senses during his seizures. His life is transformed when he meets Natalia, a young, enchanting and crazy lady.
- DirectorJosé Antonio GuayasaminStarsCarlos AillaMarco AillaNoemí AillaThis documentary is about Carlitos, a young man with mental disability who has a particular vision of the world and a tender sensibility. This documentary tries to show his way of perceiving the world and also his attempt to live to the fullest.
- DirectorTito JaraStarsAndrés CrespoCarlos ValenciaEmilia CeballosA precarious con artist manipulates the family of a "miracle girl" and creates a business so large and lucrative that it will inevitably get out of hand.
- DirectorJosué MirandaStarsMichelle PrendesSantiago CarpioFabo DojaIsabel's fiancé, Roberto, suffers a misterious accident that puts him in a coma without explanation. Aniel, an ex-priest expert on exorcisms, helps Isabel find out the real reason of Roberto's state, which might have its origins on the legend of a woman that migrated to the city a hundred years ago.