Ecuador

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

On April 16, 2016, a devastating earthquake shakes the Ecuadorian coast. Independiente del Valle, a young soccer team from the Sangolquí Valley, invents a new face for soccer by ...

Manuel is a young fisherman who decides that his last day of fishing has arrived… a strange sound haunts his habitat. His sister Daniela and his neighbors regret his decision and ...

A suspense thriller about a reporter from Miami who travels to Ecuador in pursuit of a serial killer known as the "Monster of Babahoyo."

Eyewitnesses, including Castro himself, look back on the period of resistance and the toppling of Batista's dictatorship. By zooming in on the individual within the collective, the ...

Anticipating the return of her father, Alicia a little pianist awaits his arrival, however, he does not return home. Searching for answers, she comes across objects from her childhood, ...

An ordinary day in the life of a community on the Santa Elena Peninsula, on the Ecuadorian coast. The many characters in this documentary –simple people, heir to an ancient culture– ...

Oswaldo Guayasamín, one of the most renowned Latin American artists, with more than 600 portraits in his pictorial career, (among which are F. Mitterrand, Carolina de Mónaco, Juan ...

In the Andes is the closest city to the Sun. Here, groups of power conspire to bring chaos to the population, using biological weapons, mental manipulation, quarantines and black magic. ...

Two hustlers are united on the run after an innocent robbery. They travel the country seeking to subsist at the cost of the ingenuity of people.

DreamTown follows Anibal Chala, a rural Afro-Ecuadorian boy who strives against all odds to make it to the professional soccer leagues.

November 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 ...

A young man named Ángel decides to take revenge for the murder of his parents, committed at the hands of hitmen hired by a businessman. Due to the difficulty of knowing exactly who was ...

A documentary chronicle of the prisoners’ takeover of the Garcia Moreno Penitentiary in Quito, Ecuador. The prisoners find they suddenly have a voice after they take 360 people hostage, ...

One 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 ...

With intertwined life stories, this film starts from the questions: Is Ecuadorian society essentially mestizo? What is a mongrel? This documentary aims to bring to the fore issues that ...

In 1971, Uruguayan journalist and writer Eduardo Galeano published his landmark work Open Veins of Latin America, in which he comprehensively described the centuries of economic ...

Since more than 10 years the director Darío Aguirre lives between two totally different worlds, Germany and Ecuador. He decides to make an extraordinary journey, visiting five unknown ...

Juan dreams to escape from his country and its problems.

"Galapagos: Paradise in Loss" is a documentary focused on the reflection on the relationship between human beings and nature, told from the perspective of the inhabitants of Santa Cruz ...

A collage of memories turned sensory vision, from the Sahara desert to the waters of South America.

At a moment of great lucidity, or delirium maybe, Pancho has a sort of epiphany and affirms that he is being part of a movie.

Beatriz looks for her former partner Mercedes, but she is already with someone else. Beatriz forces her entry into his house and asks her to come back.

A cynical college student and an optimistic tourist, stranded on a bus by a national strike, form an unlikely bond as they decide to hitchhike together to reach their individual ...