Ecuador Movies

Anthropological film developed from field research conducted in the Andean parish of Simiatug, in Bolívar Province, Ecuador. The film examines...

A short story about grief and how we must face it. It is narrated from the perspective of a young man who has lost his girlfriend; his pain is...

Other than the fragmentation of familial and communal ties, rural-to-urban migration leads into the assimilation of the urban lifestyle. However, for...

The Jambelí Archipelago is located on the southern coast of Ecuador. It consists mainly of mangroves, but due to shrimp farming expansion,...

Short animated documentary that narrates the process of pregnancy of a woman in the middle of the social protests of October 2019 in Ecuador, and her...

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...

Paseo de las banderillas announcing the bulls

A remembrance ritual where passing through places that have inhabited me, I show myself as a space in demolition, abandonment and construction.

A short film that tells the story of Fernando Daquilema and the indigenous uprising between 1870 and 1871 in the province of Chimborazo.

SapiKuna is a documentary exploring the ancestral knowledge of the Kichwa cultures in the Ecuadorian highlands. Through voices, rituals, and...

A satire of a conservative armed uprising against the Ecuadorian liberal president Gonzalo Córdova.

One morning in 1986, in the departure tax line at the Quito Airport, Jorge meets a young Colombian man who wants to be his friend. Thus begins an...

A freelance animator faces the demonic incarnation of her artistic fears during the night before the deadline of an important job assignment.

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...