Ecuador Movies

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

About Niño, an orphanage boy in the port city of Guayaquil in Ecuador.

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

When her parents tell her they’re getting a divorce, Moni does what any 16-year-old girl would do: she claims that the Virgin Mary speaks to...

A documentary about the malaria control program in Ecuador.

As a result of a domestic accident, my grandmother started being monitored at home. Day and night cameras record her movements, interfering with her...

Vera Kohn, a Jewish woman of German descent born in Prague in 1912, fled from Czechoslovakia to Latin America in 1939, where she built a new life for...

On January 3, 2001 in Lorca there was a traffic accident that caused 12 deaths who were Ecuadorians, worked in agricultural fields and were in an...

Darío follows in the footsteps of his famous ancestor to uncover a hidden chapter in his family's history. With the help of previously unknown...

A fearless sea captain, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, sails a ship through loopholes in international law, providing abortions on the high seas, and leaving...

Comedy about universal concepts such as borders, migration, social prejudices and fears of society.

A poetic perspective on the environment from the Achuar peoples of the Amazon Rainforest.

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

A two and half month journey from Buenos Aires (Argentina) to Medellin (Colombia), through some of the most amazing places in South America, immersed...

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...

A conflicted mestizo man in Quito rejects his roots and tries to pass as part of the white elite, building a fragile identity based on appearances....

A meeting between the daughter and the grandmother of the director, Iván Mora Manzano, at a time when the memories of one, the girl’s,...

Zara has an internal conflict since she does not know what profession to pursue in her future, to follow what her mother says or to follow her heart

Chinese mining in Ecuador’s mountains sets the stage for an epic battle between eco-guerrillas and a corrupt government in an intensely...

Leo (27) returns to Las Maravillas, his mining town in southern Ecuador, because Tiberio (60s), his macho father, is dying. Returning reunites him...