Ecuador Movies

Final minute is an Ecuadorian police thriller film, directed by Luis Avilés, was produced by Leticia Becilla and starring Ricardo Velasteguí. It is the first film in the world to be recorded entirely with drones.1 The film was released in Guayaquil, Quito, Cue...

With the arrival of major international movie theater chains in the late 1990s, the era of the old-fashioned movie theaters in Quito came to an end. For more than 80 years, the city was dominated by iconic movie theaters that captivated audiences like no other...

Documentary short film about a man (Juan Pablo Manzano) who gave his life to deliver films, with his video club more than 30 years ago.

A freelance animator faces the demonic incarnation of her artistic fears during the night before the deadline of an important job assignment.

Shows how young architects are making changes in paradigms happen, offering a new understanding of how the profession interacts with society.

In an old colonial house in the Ecuadorian highlands, Miguel Villavicencio holds the Tribuna Suprema del Arte radio broadcast ,spanning for more than sixty years, alive, keeping while popular memory and music withstand the silence of oblivion.

After 40 years apart, three women reunite in an apartment frozen in time. Amid silences, tension, and awkward humor, the meeting exposes everything left unsaid and reveals that the past is far more present than they realize.

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 to revive punk in the city before it disappears with him.

The Hippodrome

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

Lago Agrio: La Memoria Urbana de la Selva is an audiovisual essay by Pablo Campaña that explores the complex urban experience within the Ecuadorian Amazon, investigating how the collective memory of Lago Agrio's inhabitants is deeply intertwined with oil extra...

How to make a film about an event for which there are no moving images? In my search to make a project about Ecuador's largest worker's strike, which ended in the massacre of hundreds or thousands of workers in 1922 (and of which there are no moving images),I...

A simple yet powerful portrait of Ecuador's urban scene. With a close and passionate perspective, this mini documentary by Papitas con Cuero Productions celebrates and faithfully captures the connection between the body, the street, and the community.

Hold on to memory, but don't lose sight of what’s still here.

Samuel, an office worker tired of existing, decides to take poison to end his life, without imagining that time would pass and his pain would increase indeterminately, until he had a connection with a spiritual entity.

Rosetta, a self-reliant vegan baker, experiences a series of misfortunes over the course of eight hours as she struggles to renew her ill mother's health insurance and keep her in the hospital.

Generations of fishermen have lived around this lake, maintaining a vital connection to it. The lake is drying up due to drought, so the fishermen are leaving for distant lands. Only one fisherman decides to stay. He believes that life that begins in a lake sh...

Early silent Western from Ecuador.