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...

After 40 years apart, three women reunite in an apartment frozen in time. Amid silences, tension, and awkward humor, the meeting exposes everything...

During the curfew decreed by the Covid-19 pandemic in Guayaquil, Junior (25), a small trafficker from the northern area, must learn to sell pork to...

Early silent Western from Ecuador.

The extreme passion for Lucha Libre, leads a small group of Ecuadorian amateur wrestlers to face each other in a tournament to win a dream...

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

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....

A simple yet powerful portrait of Ecuador's urban scene. With a close and passionate perspective, this mini documentary by Papitas con Cuero...

From a point of view-listening that is both animal and elemental, between the air, the ocean and the sand, relationships emerge between humans, birds...

Santa Rosa, a small town in Cuenca, is inhabited almost exclusively by women and children. The men have emigrated to the United States. The nostalgia...

Burial of Archbishop Manuel Maria Polit Laso (October 1932)

Helena is 17 years old and studies in Finland. Her father, a Swede, and her mother, indigenous Kichwa of Sarayaku, live at the heart of the Amazon in...

2-3 minute short films on 7 deadly sins by 7 amateur directors from 7 different countries.

Shot in New York, home at the time for over 400.000 ecuadorians, most of rural origin. Amidst a forced exodus that for the majority offered no...

The Hippodrome

Shortfilm talking about the problems that low resources cancer children have to deal to get a proper treatment.

A drift between two cities: Berlin and Quito. A sensitive voice challenges the boundaries of reason through questions born from the everyday: Have...

In an old colonial house in the Ecuadorian highlands, Miguel Villavicencio holds the Tribuna Suprema del Arte radio broadcast ,spanning for more than...

A photographer is called by a union leader to take photographs of a workers' protest that ends in a massacre by the State. The photographed material...