Ecuador Movies

Comedy about universal concepts such as borders, migration, social prejudices and fears of society.

Kinku is a girl who lost her older sister Nanki, who disappeared a long time ago. Hoping to see Nanki again, she begins her journey along several winding paths, going through her fears and pains until she builds a place where she knows there are different ways...

A Hungarian explorer claims to have discovered a "Gold Library" inside a cave. Lacking evidence, he tries to get the recognition he believes he deserves but struggles to get support from the local governments and religious leaders.

November 7th, 2001. After a seventy years absence, the Ecuadorian national soccer team is close to qualifying for the first time to a Soccer World Cup. This documentary follows the events that took place during that historic date, when a whole country lived un...

Julian, a man stressed by life, decides to lock himself in his apartment to rest and disconnect from the world until he hears strange noises outside his home and questions his sanity.

A collective documentary that retells the struggles for the defense of the land and collective rights of the Ecuadorian Amazon, tracing the memory of the indigenous movement from 1980 to today.

"Galapagos: Paradise in Loss" is a documentary focused on the reflection on the relationship between human beings and nature, told from the perspective of the inhabitants of Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos Islands.

Over the course of thirteen years, the filmmaker and protagonist shares the experience of his binational family, taking us to his wife's country. "Becoming family" requires a significant cultural sacrifice, as they navigate the challenges of uprooting and inte...

A woman suffering from drug addiction is interned against her will in a clandestine rehabilitation center where she suffers many cases of abuse and fights to survive against violence, prejudice and the loss of dignity.

They say that when they give you a name, they also assign you a destiny. The director of this documentary inherited hers from an aunt who died very young and whom she did not know. Through an 8mm film from 1962 and interviews with those who knew her, she will...

Carmela lives with her husband and eight children near the Ecuadorian-Colombian border. This 56-year-old Afro-Ecuadorian woman opened her home to provide free and temporary shelter for thousands who leave Venezuela on foot, hoping to find better days in other...

A man with power from the countryside of Manabi decides to take justice on his own hands and hires a group of hitmen to avenge the death of his son.

In an unknown first world airport the arrival of an ecuadorian flight is heard. The 'members of the European Union' passby migration, while the 'others', in the other line, wait. In the middle of the claims, a group of ecuadorians is arrested. They are taken t...

Floralba Corozo is one of the oldest singers of alabaos and arrullos in Telembi, an Afro-Ecuadorian community that prepares for several months to remember their deceased; to understand and caress death closely, which is the most real way to understand life.

At the end of the 19th century, a boy appears in an Andean village. Nicanor, the village priest, discovers that the child’s blood causes the crops to bear fruit magically, but for the boy to live, he must be fed human blood.

María and Isabel are two women in their fifties who, like many others, recycle in Quito, where there is no recycling system. María leads a collective fight for basic labor rights; while Isabel transmits her knowledge of environmental care while she raises her...