Ecuador Movies

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

Amado cut down twenty-five trees a day during the seven years he was a feller. Yadira grew up believing that as a woman, her possibilities were...

José, trapped in a sitcom, has to process an endless flood of documents in order to make a career. His boss determines his amount of work and...

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

After twelve years living abroad, the filmmaker returns to Ecuador and encounters six artists using their work as a trench. A real-life tragedy...

Mariangula, an obsessed lady, to win she will do everything in her power to reach for glory, but her actions will bring fatal consequences for her...

Short film.

Ancient wisdom meets modern revolution as a shaman’s family rise against IMF-backed oil forces, catalysing an Indigenous uprising that seeks to...

How to make a film about an event for which there are no moving images? In my search to make a project about Ecuador's largest worker's strike, which...

The arrival of some strange people to a distant population begins a series of macabre events, habitants and authorities of the place will do their...

A doctor with a talent for playing the piano finds artistic inspiration in hospital patients and composes her last melody.

The film is a black tale, like black is the colour of oil, which casts shadows over stories which are still without an end, seeking a future in a...

An Islands' diary, told through the sombre but loving portrait of its oldest inhabitants. The Galapagos Islands and their majestic tortoises suffer...

"Go to sleep child, go to sleep now, or the Cuco will come and eat you" cautiously warn parents to their children so they go to sleep on time and...

Carlos is the Colombian father of Ecuadorian filmmaker Penagos. The stories he told her as a child were more innocent variations on his real-life...

The short film Pajuyuk explores the transmission of ancestral knowledge among the Kichwa Napuruna women of the Ecuadorian Amazon, focusing on the...

Based on the work of Monsignor Leónidas Proaño, Bishop of Riobamba, the daily life of an indigenous community is presented. His family...