Ecuador Movies

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 are...

Based on the account of a mother and a grandmother about the murder of a travesti, this short documentary explores the dreamlike state—that territory...

Our environment shapes our ideas, our dreams, and even our happiness, an unknown emotion without its eternal companions: expectations, pressure, and l...

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 and...

On the verge of death, a girl immerses into a delirium that glimpses the intertwined lives of a pianist and a dancer. / An exploration into the fragil...

Mateo (16) goes through a confused homosexual and psychic awakening. The spirit of Rosa (40),his mother, tries to say goodbye but he doesn't let her....

Across the Amazon, Indigenous guards are unarmed patrols that peacefully defend ancestral territories against threats like oil, mining and poaching. T...

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

Anthropological film developed from field research conducted in the Andean parish of Simiatug, in Bolívar Province, Ecuador. The film examines the liv...

A young, unsuccessful musician tries to find the lyrics to his new song, but to no avail. An unexpected event disrupts his life, and he does something...

Amado cut down twenty-five trees a day during the seven years he was a feller. Yadira grew up believing that as a woman, her possibilities were restri...

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 live...

In Chimborazo, the water in the rivers no longer sings, but carries debris. Through the testimonies of farmers whose lives depend on these waterways,...

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

TRINIDAD is a vibrant and intimate documentary capturing a ballroom event hosted by CARISHIN.X in Quito, Ecuador.

The action of this short film elapses in the form of an interior monologue, a narrative technique of the consciousness flow developed in the literatur...