Ecuador Movies

Ballroom dancing

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...

In the city of Cuenca, metal music has been a prevailing force since the early 1980s. Through interviews with artists, managers, and promoters within...

In 1989 the ecuadorian writer Gustavo Garzón Guzmán was arrested and acussed of being part of a political movement the Movimiento...

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...

Arch of the Queen

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

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...

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

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

Indigenous women at Lake San Pablo

Parade with portrait of Eloy Alfaro

Isabel writes letters to her children that she will never send. She lives with Jose, her youngest, and together they experience the aftershocks of...

Estrella 14 tells the story Barcelona Sporting Club's first championship in 14 years. Barcelona Sporting Club is the most popular soccer team in...

Chloe, a woman focused on her work and with no space in her life for love, decides to put everything aside to reunite with her soul mate.

A simple yet powerful portrait of Ecuador's urban scene. With a close and passionate perspective, this mini documentary by Papitas con Cuero...

In one of the most unique and fragile ecosystems on the planet, the Galápagos archipelago, marine biologist Carolina Proaño is fighting...

Theater women or 'the comics'