Ecuador Movies

Can a commune survive in the 21st Century? Engabao, a fishing commune in Ecuador, has historically been a site of land struggle between inhabitants...

A film correspondence between a filmmaker, the ghost of an artist, and the city of Guayaquil.

Wallace is a ghost trapped in limbo, paralyzed by the fear of crossing over to the afterlife. There, he meets Daysi, another soul longing to take...

Steeped in the long oral tradition of Waorani storytelling, Gange Yeti shares her own coming-of-age story as a young Waorani woman living deep within...

The story of three Ecuadorian families who, separated by migration, fight to reunite.

Satya was born in the countryside, in the middle of the world. Helen and Nicola, her mothers, wanted her to be born there, in the peace of his home....

With the arrival of major international movie theater chains in the late 1990s, the era of the old-fashioned movie theaters in Quito came to an end....

Vicky is fisherman by day and bar owner at night. When she was a little boy her dream was to be a radio soap opera star, nowadays she dreams of...

Across the Amazon, Indigenous guards are unarmed patrols that peacefully defend ancestral territories against threats like oil, mining and poaching....

A documentary about the malaria control program in Ecuador.

Between Marx and a Naked Woman is the adaptation of a novel written by Ecuadorian Poet, Jorge Enrique Adoum. The scenes of this film insert us into...

At the end of the 19th century, a boy appears in an Andean village. Nicanor, the village priest, discovers that the child’s blood causes the...

During Ecuador’s blackouts, a filmmaker films his mother and grandmother, finding in the everyday a refuge from fear outside. An intimate essay...

A group of teenage victims of sex trafficking are temporarily living in a shelter hidden in the middle of a forest of frailejones. Between...

A 13-year-old girl living in a Buenos Aires shantytown falls for a 17-year-old boy who earns a living juggling in a Spiderman costume.

On a remote rural estate with a large cornfield, two filmmakers debate how to put together a film about a real case of child disappearance....

A few years ago the indigenous musician Delfín Quishpe uploaded a video clip on YouTube of his song Torres Gemelas without imagining the...

Yulimar seeks to become independent. Jesús, a rap musician, searches for the best place to continue singing. Valeria is looking to get out of...