Ecuador Movies

Dive into the bold blue world of How to Build a Sandcastle and find yourself swept up in an inky journey of discovery. Themes of queer exploration...

Hall dance 1929

Jaime Romero is an Ecuadorian mountaineer who tells us about his experiences with the Carihuairazo volcano in Tungurahua, Ecuador. He laments the...

Theater women or 'the comics'

Ma Luisa puts all her energy into not showing that there is something in her life that makes her unhappy.

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

An audiovisual piece that explores the changing soundscape of the Ecuadorian rainforest. Situated at the intersection between documentary and sound...

Aerial views of the city of Quito

First feature film by Ana Cristina Franco Varela

Over the course of thirteen years, the filmmaker and protagonist shares the experience of his binational family, taking us to his wife's country....

Santa Rosa, a small town in Cuenca, is inhabited almost exclusively by women and children. The men have emigrated to the United States. The nostalgia...

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...

Ballroom dancing

Inspired by the brief and yet intense life of Ecuadorian poet Medardo Ángel Silva, this movie reveals intimate details of one of the most...

An indigenous laborer takes revenge against the abuse from his landowner.

A collective documentary that retells the struggles for the defense of the land and collective rights of the Ecuadorian Amazon, tracing the memory of...