Ecuador Movies

First feature film by Ana Cristina Franco Varela

After losing her grandfather when she was less than a year old, a now very conflicted teen must learn how to navigate her grief even though she...

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

The camera follows movements that we cannot initially identify. Then we realize that we are observing workers on a flower farm and their daily work...

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...

A teenager recalls her good and bad moments of the year during her graduation.

Young Neisi Dajomes and her siblings train in a small and simple weightlifting gym located in a quiet and humble town in Ecuador. They see in this...

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....

Yuyari builds a scarecrow for his family's corn farm. The scarecrow (Sara) comes to life and wants to learn to fly.

The elders of the Kichwa community of Sarayaku preserve the history of their land for the youngest. They save the knowledge of their traditions...

The definitive documentary about Rayuela, an alternative rock band that reunited in 2019 for a final concert. What broke them apart? This question...

Across the Amazon, Indigenous guards are unarmed patrols that peacefully defend ancestral territories against threats like oil, mining and poaching....

A woman suffering from drug addiction is interned against her will in a clandestine rehabilitation center where she suffers many cases of abuse and...

A mother and her son use the same video tapes to record themselves in parallel timelines, overlapping different impressions of the world. Images from...

Lucia, a 16-year-old punk rock fan and singer, lives with her family. When her mother is accused of attempted murder after pushing her step-father...

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