Ecuador Movies

Doctors Meeting

In the city of Cuenca, metal music has been a prevailing force since the early 1980s. Through interviews with artists, managers, and promoters within...

Estrella 14 tells the story Barcelona Sporting Club's first championship in 14 years. Barcelona Sporting Club is the most popular soccer team in...

A young man has lost his identity, and takes a quest to find it, resorting to his ancestors in the province of Chimborazo.

In this country, the sun beats down at ninety degrees with no mercy: it does not let you cast a shadow or look at the sky. We’re fed up with it...

Civil military and religious authorities

Parade with portrait of Eloy Alfaro

Ballroom dancing

Hall dance 1929

The Jambelí Archipelago is located on the southern coast of Ecuador. It consists mainly of mangroves, but due to shrimp farming expansion,...

Ecuadorian artist Francisco Baquerizo Racines explores colonial history and mestizo traditions such as the burning of año viejo dolls. Using...

A doctor with a talent for playing the piano finds artistic inspiration in hospital patients and composes her last melody.

Woman and man on horseback

Theater women or 'the comics'

Children playing

Carlos is the Colombian father of Ecuadorian filmmaker Penagos. The stories he told her as a child were more innocent variations on his real-life...

In 1980, the capture of the infamous serial killer Pedro Alonso López, also known as the Monster or the Strangler of the Andes, seemed to end...

A short film that tells the story of Fernando Daquilema and the indigenous uprising between 1870 and 1871 in the province of Chimborazo.

Shot in New York, home at the time for over 400.000 ecuadorians, most of rural origin. Amidst a forced exodus that for the majority offered no...

A simple yet powerful portrait of Ecuador's urban scene. With a close and passionate perspective, this mini documentary by Papitas con Cuero...