Ecuador Movies

SapiKuna is a documentary exploring the ancestral knowledge of the Kichwa cultures in the Ecuadorian highlands. Through voices, rituals, and...

A Table that deals with the importance of caring for the environment through the good management of human waste. A story that seeks to generate...

The emotional decline of a person after being the host of an energetic parasite.

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...

A satire of a conservative armed uprising against the Ecuadorian liberal president Gonzalo Córdova.

Gerardo, a short person, suffers a deterioration in his health that gradually affects his mobility. This leads him to implement an idea that has...

It is the story of 4 families that have something in common: Dad and Mom spend too much time at work. But like all excess has consequences, one of...

A woman suffering from drug addiction is interned against her will in a clandestine rehabilitation center where she suffers many cases of abuse and...

The flow of migration from South to North America is not only a recent phenomenon. In the early 1980s, for example, Ecuadorians fled their country...

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

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...

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

Woman and man on horseback

Fishing boat

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

Other than the fragmentation of familial and communal ties, rural-to-urban migration leads into the assimilation of the urban lifestyle. However, for...

Charlie Chaplin look-a-like doing bullfighting.

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

A teenager recalls her good and bad moments of the year during her graduation.