Ecuador Movies

A portrait of a queer HIV+ Iranian refugee in Quito.

Is the year 2023. Quito has been walled by Leonardo Ponce, a military dictator that took control of the city in the early 2010's. A group of...

Camila suffers from amnesia and has filled the emptiness in her life with an imaginary world where a giant fish acts as her guardian. She escapes...

The flow of migration from South to North America is not only a recent phenomenon. In the early 1980s, for example, Ecuadorians fled their country...

On the northern coast of Ecuador, on Tolita Island, Washo, a fifty-year-old unemployed fisherman tempted by necessity accepts the invitation of his...

In the family of photographer-turned-filmmaker Misha Vallejo no one ever talks about his grandfather. He only hears about him for the first time as...

A handmade narco sub is on the verge of sinking and losing its precious cargo due to a mechanical failure. The three crew members are forced to open...

97 houses, 18 families. The lives of this people who live at a caribbean island isolated from the rest of the world.

Portrays the misunderstandings, losses and shipwrecks of the past of an unusual character who walks the streets of San Telmo forced to build a new...

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....

Martín is a 13-year-old orphan shoeshine boy from La Paz, Bolivia, who has lived his entire life in the streets with the hope and desire to...

A conversation between two Ecuadorian friends in the city of Panama.

Gathered in a shelter in an Ecuadorian forest, adolescent victims of sex trafficking take their tentative first steps in their newly recovered lives.

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...

A murder sets in motion a series of tragedies that find their way to the city morgue's Dr. Arturo Fernandez. Physically and emotionally isolated,...

An unfinished film is passed along from one friend to another. The dialog between them is a journey crossed by the swarming of the Great Eastern...

Floralba Corozo is one of the oldest singers of alabaos and arrullos in Telembi, an Afro-Ecuadorian community that prepares for several months to...

In 2007, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa proposed not to exploit the ITT block in the Yasuní National Park in exchange for $3.6 billion in...

A botanical expedition in Ecuador's Amazon becomes a medium for an indigenous Huaorani community to remember the genocidal colonization it suffered...