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- DirectorSantiago CaicedoStarsMaría Cecilia SánchezMartina ToroAlejandra BorreroPaola is born in a traditional Colombian family, or at least that is what they try to be. Her father is a priest, her mother is a "psychic" and her sisters are not what their parents expected. She is a young Latin American woman struggling for her independence in a hard context full of stereotypes and appearances not being able to fit in any mold. With a unique feminine vision of the world this girl learns to live while she lives as she witnesses a series of small crises that shape her personality.
- DirectorJorge UlloaStarsMariana TreviñoJorge Enrique AbelloLorna CepedaA band of misfits enter a music video contest in order to win a cash prize, but don't realize they actually have to be good at playing music.
- DirectorAna Cristina BarragánStarsMacarena AriasPablo Aguirre AndradeAmaia MerinoAlba, an 11 year old girl, has to move to her father's house due to her mother's illness. She barely knows him and sharing time with him at home feels weird. Both are shy, both feel lonely but they can't find a way to approach each other.
- DirectorDiego AraujoStarsJuan ArreguiElena VargasCristina MorrisonA drama set in turbulent, turn-of-the-millennium Ecuador and centered on a young man who begins to develop complicated feelings for Juano after he saves him from a beating.
- DirectorSebastián CorderoStarsMarieta CastilloAndrés CrespoAlejandro FajardoBlaquito is thirty years old and lives with his mother in El Matal, a small fishing village on the coast of Ecuador. One day, the beach turns up filled with cocaine packets. Blanquito, along with his friend Lorna, decide to travel to Guayaquil, where people will pay five times more per package. Little does Blanquito realize that in the days that follow he will be staring at death in the eye and losing his head for love.
- DirectorJavier AndradeStarsFrancisco SavinovichVictor ArauzLeovanna OrlandiniPaco Chavez's life is careless and charming. It's a life of illicit drugs and a forbidden love affair he carries with Lucia, his former high school sweetheart, now married to another man. One night, Paco and his younger brother Luis, enter their parent's home to steal a porcelain horse to pawn in order to score more drugs. Their father catches them and a fight ensues. The consequences of that fight will haunt both brothers forever.
- DirectorSebastián CorderoStarsDaniel Adum GilbertVictor ArauzDiego CatañoEverything begins with a stray bullet... And a wealthy young man trying to evict 250 families who are squatting on the land he inherited from his father. The leader of the squatter settlement is ready to negotiate, knowing that an eviction will not happen without blood. Suspecting a betrayal, the dwellers voice their concern. SIN MUERTOS NO HAY CARNAVAL portrays the city of Guayaquil through all its social strata, full of latent tensions that can only be resolved through violence. SIN MUERTOS NO HAY CARNAVAL (2016) is Sebastián Cordero's sixth feature film. It's an Ecuadorian-Mexican- German co-production, entirely shot on location in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
- DirectorGabriela CalvacheStarsNoëlle SchönwaldCristian MercadoJaime TamarizShe is the perfect woman until she decides to be free.
- DirectorJamaicanoproblemPablo AgüeroStarsLily van GhemenLuis Felipe Fernandez-Salvador y CampodonicoArianna MorganPipe is invited to join his mysterious father on a quest for the lost Inca gold. But as they journey deeper into the jungle, he understands that they cannot escape the family demons that are traveling with them.
- DirectorTito JaraStarsJenny NavaGabino TorresLily AlejandraThe statue of the Virgin that crowns "The Panecillo" looks and smiles to the north of the city, home to wealthier people, in the south, where most of its inhabitants are the most poor, they only see her back. "Behind Your Back" is the story of Jorge Chicaiza Cisneros (Jordi), a young man working at a bank in Quito and whose main concern in life is to forget and hide his humble origins in the poor neighborhoods of the south city and his mestizo racial reality. His economic capacity, as a son of a migrant mother allows, him to change his name to Jordi Lamotta Cisneros, likewise change his home residence and activities. He likes wearing designer clothes, partying and spends all his moderate salary to car tuning. All this in order to impress the middle class of the northern part of the city and gain their acceptance, yet he knows he will never become part of the high social circles because as a mestizo. Jordi meets Greta by coincidence, a Colombian girl who has come to Ecuador to make a living, and later her corruptive best friend Yahaira. Greta has a secret affair with the nephew of the owner of the same bank where Jordi works, Luis Alberto Granada de la Roca, an ordinary marketing engineer which hides a series of dirty deals behind the work assigned by his uncle. Jordi, Greta, Yahaira, Luis Alberto, a strange lawyer, The Progressive Bank and the Virgin of The Panecillo, casually intertwine their lives in search of money, power and acceptance; in the process, they'll discover hidden realities and other accepted with resignation by Ecuadorian society.
- DirectorFernando MielesStarsPeki AndinoAndrés CrespoAlejandro FajardoIn 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 to the Room, where they wait to be deported. Seems like everyone hides something, like PROMETEO the youn magician with his hands tied like a delinquent who has a 'magical' trunk as luggage. Time passes, a way of being, Ecuador happens in this waiting room. Seems like there is no possible exit. Meanwhile, a different but well-known way of life takes place. The only thing left as a promising way out is illusion.
- DirectorMicaela RuedaStarsSamanta CaicedoMaria Juliana RangelDiego NaranjoLoner Sara is in her last year of high school and is miserable. Shunned by the girls in her class for being "weird," she spends her lunches smoking in secret behind the school. That is, until the new girl, Andrea, finds her.
- DirectorIván Mora ManzanoStarsEnzo MacchiavelloAndres Troya HolstPaola BaldionThe portrait of an invisible generation. A punk ballad told from the point of view of 10 youngsters with stories that interconnect, not with their destinies but with their concepts: the trip as a way of reinvention, questioning happiness and the system, evasion, moral limits, madness, decadence and love.
- DirectorTania HermidaStarsEva Mayu Mecham BenavidesMarkus Mecham BenavidesMartina LeónIt's the summer of 1976. Manuela is a nine year old girl who's caught in between her communist and atheist father and her grandmother, a catholic and conservative woman. They both dispute the right to define her name and, with it, her role inside the familiar universe. It will be her encounter with with her crazy uncle, hidden in the library of the family's farmhouse (where he has dedicated himself to freeing the words) that will wake up her need to go through mirrors, transforming forever her relationship with language and names, including her own.
- DirectorDiego AraujoStarsVictor ArauzDaniela RoepkeMarla XavieraAfraid to face upcoming parenthood and the ultimate deadline for his long-awaited novel, a once-promising writer develops a crush on a defiant muse, the 16-year-old girl next door, and escapes into a second adolescence, alienating his partner and those who care about him before finally coming to terms with adulthood.
- DirectorJuan Sebastian JacomeStarsSamanta CaicedoDiego NaranjoJuana EstrellaAs Cotopaxi spews ash, issuing an eerie penumbra over Quito, a young woman confronts dormant familial conflicts. Desperate for a place to store her things as volcanic disaster looms, Caridad turns to her long-estranged father Galo for help. Galo abandoned Caridad's mother long ago and is eager to make amends, but questions concerning the nature of his transgressions linger, straining communication between father and daughter and casting grave doubts over the possibility of reconciliation.
- DirectorPedro AmorimKarim AïnouzAbner BenaimStarsSami SamirFootball seen through the eyes of directors from several parts of the world.
- DirectorAlfredo León LeónStarsPamela CortesAlfredo EspinosaPaul LalaleoBelieving that military experience will make him a strong and respected man, Jorge, a young Ecuadorian, joins the armed forces in the midst of his country's 1941 border war with Peru. Captured and imprisoned by enemy forces and given up for dead, Jorge faces neglect, hunger, and, possibly, even death as he recovers from his injuries. He will soon have to choose between escaping with fellow prisoner Hugo or staying at the camp under the care of the Peruvian nurse Dolores, with whom he's fallen in love.
- DirectorJuan Pablo RichterStarsSantiago RozoValentina VillalpandoFernando Arze EchalarAn introvert city teenager is sent to his father's timber ranch. While trying to figure out his place as the son of the boss he finds himself in a world packed with naturalized violence.
- DirectorCésar IzurietaJuan Fernando MoscosoStarsSilvio VillagómezJose Luís VergaraEnrique CarvajalQuito 2023 is a thriller/Sci-Fi feature film that focuses on the Ecuadorian capital, some years from now. After several internal political problems, a coup has left the country under military control. Quito is the last frontier, the city has been completely fenced, enclosed and sheltered. The film starts from this point and focuses on two locations only. One, the palace where the General Ponce, a cynical and cunning man who runs the party, and is in charge of the city. The second, the headquarters of a group of young revolutionaries led by Marcos and Santiago, two guys with completely different visions. Marcosis hungry for power and strength. The other, his buddy Santiago, a man that has lost all hope for a better tomorrow. The film, without any political agenda, focuses on the hours before the revolutionaries make their last attack with the goal of overthrowing the tyranny that surrounds the city. These two places and characters are woven together to tell a story that is directly based on dialog rather than in action, in which the attitude of each one of them is analyzed, between ambition, power, humility and faith of those who expect a better future. The conclusion is that this is perhaps not more than another case of a social upheaval in Latin America, where there is really no solution in a region characterized by high ungovernability and the ingenuity of his own people.
- DirectorLeonard ZeligStarsMaría Elisa CamargoErin FogelRoberto ManriqueRubén has three months to live or, probably, one year and a half with treatment. After a very complex process he decides to kill himself, before the cancer start showing symptoms. In "Translucido" we will be witnesses of his fate.
- DirectorLuis AvilésStarsRicardo VelasteguíAlberto Pablo RiveraDavid SaavedraLeonardo is a policeman who finds a homicide on the road that reminds him something of the past. He goes in search of the murderer but he meets with his former boss, Johnny, who will try to prevent him from achieving his goal.
- DirectorTito MolinaStarsBertha NaranjoNey MoreiraMartín RodríguezAfter the death of her husband, silence and loneliness reign in this old lady's house. She made routine her best friend and faith her shelter. Only in her dreams she runs away from those four walls to a timeless magic land where the sea speaks without using words. Her days go by like this, between the real life and dreams, until a street dog comes to her door
- DirectorMaría Victoria MenisStarsPablo Aguirre AndradeEmanuela GavazzaLucía Ruiz OrtizMARIA AND SPIDER is the story of Maria, a thirteen year old girl who lives in a Buenos Aires shantytown whit her grandmother and her obscure partner. Candidate for a scholarship to continue her education, Maria is finishing primary school, while working on the subway.
- DirectorPaúl VenegasStarsJing FuLidan ZhuDay Min MengLei and Wong clandestinely arrive to Ecuador, on their way to the port city of Guayaquil. From there Lei plans to continue her journey to New York, but Chang, a bipolar mobster will decide her fate. Wong unwillingly gets entangled in the web of corruption that operates the encroachment of Chinese immigrants. His only objective is to bring his twelve-year-old son from China. Chang falls in love with Lei, whereas she becomes conscious that her "China dream" of reaching New York is in jeopardy. Víctor, a local young man becomes a possible escape. Mr. Lu, an older calligrapher, helps the young immigrants. Lei's rejection of Chang uncovers his ruthless personality. When a smuggling scheme sets Lei and Wong at a crossroads, they can only rely on each other to reach their freedom. The film recounts the anguish of the immigrant, where deep emotions are subject to masculine power relations and where individuals struggle to maintain their dignity.
- DirectorDaniel AndradeAnahí HoeneisenStarsAndres AlvaresAndres AlvarezNicolás AndradePablo, Andres and Juan, get into their biggest teenager adventure, when Juan decides to run away from home. He is not willing to go back because his father, an old fashioned policeman, wants to change him to a military school. After a car accident, Pablo flees, never to return. 15 years later, he comes back to Ecuador to face what he left in the past. OCHENTAYSIETE is a drama about friendship and forgiveness, a movie that shows the innocence of adolescent friendship and its maturation process.
- DirectorDavid Nieto WenzellStarsNicolás AndradeAnahí HoeneisenNoelia NotoAurora, a divorced woman, receives a call from her 14 year old son's principal to let her know that he is being expelled on the last day of class. In an attempt to reach her son, she fights to fulfill her duties as a publicist, daughter, sister, and single mother. Meanwhile, her son deals with the insecurities of growing up. A chaotic city and an outdated education system trap mother and son in an increasingly impersonal world.
- DirectorViviana CorderoStarsVanessa AlvarioAna María BalarezoNadia Acevedo CorderoIn order to help her brothers and mother, Lucia is forced to thieve.
- DirectorJuan Sebastian JacomeStarsJimmy David SuarezLuis Antonio GottiVictoria GrecoTito, a lonely albino decides to travel across Central America to participate in a bowling tournament. His stubborn and ill father insists on accompanying and supporting him for the first time in decades. The journey will force the father and son to confront the reasons behind why they have not talked to or seen each other for so many years.
- DirectorJavier IzquierdoStarsDiego Coral LópezJorge Alejandro FeganMaría Josefina ViteriTwo former classmates from Ecuador run into each other in Panama City in 1985. One is a banker, while the other poses as a journalist, but is really a guerrilla member.
- DirectorJuan Carlos Donoso GómezStarsPia AguirreGloria ArcosJessica BarahonaMiguel is a 17 year-old boy that sees the future as a distant horizon, immersed in his bubble of friends and a sketchbook full of sentimental poems. 'Saudade' is the portrait of a threshold: the end of high school, which we experience through Miguel. Set amidst the backdrop of the Ecuadorian economic crisis of 1999, 'Saudade' tackles notions of economic dislocation, friendship, family and young love while juxtaposing the crumbling of Miguel's life, against the crumbling of his country.
- DirectorAlberto Pablo RiveraStarsAxel AmadorAndres GarzonAlberto Pablo RiveraTwo best friends take a trip to Montanita where they have an epic party. The events later that night will change them forever.
- DirectorJosué MirandaStarsPatricia GuillénMichelle PrendesCeleste SantillánMiranda, a lesbian photographer from Guayaquil living in Buenos Aires returns to Ecuador for an exhibition of her work. Magdalena, a simple girl after a big fight with her boyfriend decides to go party with Monica, her best friend, little she knew that night she would meet Miranda, a woman that will change the way she concieve her life.
- DirectorGabriel Paez HernandezIsabel Rodas LeónStarsCarolina Lozada CalleCarolina LozadaRosario MacasTwenty two year old Ismael only thinks about traveling to the US. He grows up with the love and care of his grandmother Mariana, a midwife and ancestral healer, after his parents emigrated from Ecuador. After Ismael agrees on a price with the coyote to be smuggled northward, his best friend Luz returns to Ecuador after eight years of living abroad. Luz's perspective fills Ismael with doubts about his decision to immigrate. The two friends criss cross the Andes by car, along the way they meet various characters and are exposed to stories and legends that will raise troubling questions for Ismael about his destiny.
- DirectorLuis LandivarStarsDiego Kelman AjuzTina Alexis AllenEdgar CaraballoWith the murder and investigation of a runaway Mexican-American teen in the down and out town of Bushwick, Brooklyn, Det. John Mejia must see that justice is done.
- DirectorJorge BastidasStarsJorge CabreraValeria MosqueraAxel OrtegaLegend tells of a girl named Palmira. A teenager, becoming a beautiful woman, her normal small town life took an unexpected turn. A demon expelled from paradise falls in love with her, causing great misfortune; only one can defeat him.
- DirectorDavid Williams LambJoshua LambStarsBen AndrewsMauricio CruzCindy LemosSurviving on the edge of poverty in the pristine jungles of the upper Amazon, Sergio and his younger brother Micos scrounge a living, dreaming of sailing. Faced with separation by adoption, Sergio and Micos begin their journey through the Andes mountains to find a place where they can be safe, together.
- DirectorCarl WestStarsMartha SalasMarcela CamposMabel Cabrera
- DirectorJosé María Avilés
- DirectorVíctor ArreguiStarsChristoph BaumannFrancisco Febres CorderoMaría Gracia OmegnaElena, daughter of a businessman, returns to Ecuador at the request of her sick father. There he meets a childhood friend, Galo, and begins to collaborate with him in tasks of organization of human rights for the indigenous communities.
- DirectorAdam LipsiusStarsJulian GloverIsla BlairJoseph MillsonTwo troubled girls, who come together as friends through their imagination of art, creating their own fantasy world where they can finally be free.
- DirectorManuel CalistoAlex CisnerosStarsManuel CalistoAlex CisnerosSonia ValdezTwo inseparable friends. Martin is a bureaucrat who seeks to overcome every day, even though deep down he knows he will never leave his office desk. Daniel is a womanizer unstable without goals, but with a mathematical gift.
- DirectorAlexandra Cuesta
- DirectorBernardo Cañizares EsguerraStarsAlejandro BuenaventuraJuan Ricardo GomezCarolina PiechesteinSet in the impressive mountain and coastal scenery of the Andean region, this film tells the story of Ana helping her grandfather escape from a psychiatric hospital to fulfill his last wish.
- DirectorNitsy Grau CrespoStarsJose Andres CaballeroPaoming CamchongEdison CarreraInspired by the brief and yet intense life of Ecuadorian poet Medardo Ángel Silva, this movie reveals intimate details of one of the most important Guayaquilean writers of 19th century: his passionate and deep poetry, his strong attraction towards death, his impossible love for a 15 year old young woman and his continual conflict with an hypocritical and conservative society.
- DirectorJoe HoulbergStarsIvan AlzateAna Cristina BarragánFernanda BarragánSara is 23 years old and is blind. One morning she goes to her country house accompanied by her boyfriend Jose Luis, her cousin Carolina and her boyfriend Pedro. At first the trip seems to be quite fun, but there is a strange energy in this country house as a result of a very dark past. As time goes by, the truth begins to unfold, and the intentions of each of the characters engages them in unexpected carnal desires. All this happens around Sara's blindness.
- DirectorAlex SchlenkerDiego Coral LópezStarsChristoph BaumannGonzalo EstupiñanJorge Alejandro FeganBernardo lives under the shadow of his mother. Kurt proposes to him to rob Bernardo's bank to buy the Third Reich's currency. On the same day that Bernardo does it, Hitler's regime falls and its currency becomes worthless.
- DirectorMateo HerreraStarsMaría AlchéRoberto SempérteguiStefano BajakAgustín needs solitude to finish his graduate thesis. He spends his days writing, eating and taking strolls in a landscape of cliffs and hidden chasms. All changes when Lucía and her boyfriend Sebastian camp next to him.
- DirectorGabriel Páez HernandezStarsFabian AsencioAna LugoXavier SaltosA day in the life of Severino, young bus driver who is on his way more than a contract that prevents him from reaching his final destination. Four stories that intertwine in a wonderful journey to the heart of Santa Elena.
- DirectorJosué MirandaStarsMichelle PrendesSantiago CarpioFabo DojaIsabel's fiancé, Roberto, suffers a misterious accident that puts him in a coma without explanation. Aniel, an ex-priest expert on exorcisms, helps Isabel find out the real reason of Roberto's state, which might have its origins on the legend of a woman that migrated to the city a hundred years ago.
- DirectorXiana YagoStarsMaria CarnicerMaria, a young Spanish doctor, works in a maternity hospital in the Ecuadorian rain forest. She is shocked about the premature pregnancies and the violence women in Ecuador have to face. She meets Mishell, an adolescent abused by her father, and Yanina, a woman who decides to perform a clandestine abortion. Maria discovers that behind unintended pregnancies often hides sexual violence.
- DirectorSebastian MantillaStarsIsela VegaDayleigh NelsonPaul Lincoln AlayoA reporter investigates Island of the Dolls (Mexico) where several unsolved murders took place in the 1950s.
- DirectorPablo Arturo SuarezStarsAlfredo EspinozaBeatriz VergaraMaría Josefina ViteriIts not about secrets, is hiding them.
- DirectorCatalina Arango CadavidStarsGabriel AmpueroGiovanna AndradeCielo Mendoza ApoloAntonia is a little photographer. She likes to capture special moments with her camera and she will spend her vacations with her grandparents. Although she go to the beaches with her dog who isn't very happy about it, Mario her grandfather, is a very quiet man, and he will help her study math. This vacations seems to be destined to be a failure, but it all will change when Mario give her a peculiar present, an old Polaroid camera. New friends, adventures, paint wars, ghosts and much more.
- DirectorCaupolican OvallesStarsMalena GonzalezLuis Gerónimo AbreuLaureano OlivaresTen years after General Antonio José de Sucre - Grand Marshal of Ayacucho- was murdered in the Berruecos jungle, Colombia. The inquiry into his death is reopened, Captain Alejandro Godoy take charge as prosecutor. Several political motives mean that the case must definitively be drawn to a close. Godoy discovers that a large part of the documentation produced during the original inquiry has been destroyed. With his own life in danger, Godoy discovers a highly intricate plot that put an end to Sucre's life.
- DirectorJorge HerreraJorge HerreraStarsYoraisi GómezLuis Alberto GarcíaLourdes TorresBarbara is about to travel to Spain for an exhibition of her paintings. The night before starting her journey there is a hurricane and she has to stay in a nightclub until the morning. During the night she comes into contact with different people who have a variety of conflicts and interests. She is drawn into this microcosm which seems to be a reflection of Cuban society today.
- DirectorErnesto SantistebanStarsPilar TorderaJuan Carlos Rey de CastroPamela SánchezIn a countryside house located in the Ecuadorean Andes Mountains lives Christine, a paralytic old woman who has decided to be isolated from the world. In that place, she found refuge in old memories of her first love, Manuel. Years after getting married and widowed from another man, Christine and her daughter, Julia, decide to put together a plan in order to reunite two young people at their countryside house. Christine's drive is for them to fall in love, so she can relive love through their eyes. Consequently, Julia meets Angie, a literature student, and Santiago, an artist dedicated to restoring religious art. Christine is not even close to imagining the amazing journey that awaits her with both of them. As the story goes on, more peculiar characters join them on this unpredictable voyage. For instance, Su, an eccentric girl; Don Curador, an art professor; and, an old man from Luxembourg.
- DirectorJhonny ObandoStarsJulio CoutinhoScarlet GruberKarin FarfanEdilson's car had broken down in a beautiful little town (Mount Dora) on his way to a cousin's wedding where he will meet a lot of explosive, original, funny and weird characters. But besides them he will meet Elizabeth, an angel who will change his life forever.
- DirectorAlberto MuenalaStarsSherman CabascangoMarcela CamachoCarlos GuerrónKILLA is the fight for the land, the corruption of the elite, the magic of the towns and the nationalities created from the Kichwa feeling.
- DirectorMonica ManceroStarsErnesto AlbánTomás CiuffardiPaty LoorAddiction has made 28-year-old Isabella a living hell, and her family is desperate to pull her out of it. Rehab centers are apparently the best option, but she will soon realize that she has to fight in order to gain her freedom.
- DirectorCaupolican OvallesStarsLuis Gerónimo AbreuAntonio DelliMalena GonzalezBogotá 1840. Ten years after General Antonio José de Sucre - Grand Marshal of Ayacucho- was murdered in the Berruecos jungle, Colombia. The inquiry into his death is reopened, Captain Alejandro Godoy take charge as prosecutor. Several political motives mean that the case must definitively be drawn to a close. Godoy discovers that a large part of the documentation produced during the original inquiry has been destroyed. With his own life in danger, Godoy discovers a highly intricate plot that put an end to Sucre's life.