Ecuador Movies

A portrait of a queer HIV+ Iranian refugee in Quito.

Ethan, an 18-year-old boy who believes the whole world revolves around him, loses all that when nothing is real about him.

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

Rita has something to confess. Amidst all her doubts, she picks up the courage to write a long letter to Lú with her confession.

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

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

During the pandemic, and upon the impending foreclosure of their precious pirated movies store, two desperate employees: Jorge —a purist cinephile— an...

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 sys...

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 dow...

A young security guard begins his first night shift at an abandoned condominium slated for demolition. To survive until dawn, he must document the nig...

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

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

In Rotuno, within the protected area of the Rio de Janeiro Protocol, 40 men armed with blowguns and weapons begin their wedding rites, never before fi...

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

Deep in Ecuador’s Mullumica Valley, figures are busy extracting obsidian, an opaque volcanic rock. The rock then begins its metamorphosis, transported...

Steeped in the long oral tradition of Waorani storytelling, Gange Yeti shares her own coming-of-age story as a young Waorani woman living deep within...