Ecuador Movies

Burial of Archbishop Manuel Maria Polit Laso (October 1932)

At a new school, Joaquin struggles to find his place, chasing connection in all the wrong directions, while David, surrounded by friends, quietly...

Gay life lessons: Coming out to your mom isn't easy, but what comes after is even harder. So, whether you've already come out or haven't yet, here...

Sea turtles arrive at Same Beach in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, for the nesting season. After laying their eggs, the mother sea turtles return to the sea,...

A friendship united by two things: volcanoes and giant tortoises, and a legacy written by science. Journey Back to Alcedo tells a story of...

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

Airmen and friends at Hacienda San Carlos

In 1987, a film school was founded next to a working-class town in western Cuba. For over three decades, hundreds of film students documented the...

Farmers of the Sierra region remain as settlers in the East, a new home, where they face the need to farm while preserving the delicate ecological...

A young man has lost his identity, and takes a quest to find it, resorting to his ancestors in the province of Chimborazo.

The Grandmothers of the Hidden Route unearth their past through magical memories and revive traditions that have been lost in time.

Ecuadorian artist Francisco Baquerizo Racines explores colonial history and mestizo traditions such as the burning of año viejo dolls. Using...

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...

A man recieves several alert messages in the middle of the night. Something sinister is stalking him in a nightmarish evening.

The story of Gonzalo Cabrera, Cuenca's last punk, recalls his rebellious youth, the emergence of chaos, the decline of a subculture, and his struggle...

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

Ladies acting and blowing kisses.

Ingratiation of Simón Bolívar