Made in Ecuador
Ecuadorian cinema has a wide variety of films that narrate a history of our people, problems of society and culture, giving inspiration to other productions from the same country to create their own stories to show them to the audience, appearing at international festivals on behalf of the Ecuador
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- 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.
- DirectorSebastián CorderoStarsCarlos ValenciaMarco BustosCristina DávilaSalvador's life takes a dark turn when his ex-convict cousin, Angel, arrives seeking money and shelter. Together, they involve their loved ones in a dangerous criminal journey.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorCarl WestStarsMartha SalasMarcela CamposMabel Cabrera
- DirectorTito JaraStarsAndrés CrespoCarlos ValenciaEmilia CeballosA precarious con artist manipulates the family of a "miracle girl" and creates a business so large and lucrative that it will inevitably get out of hand.
- DirectorAlfredo León LeónStarsLeynar GomezNatalia ReyesJosé RestrepoThe crew of a narco submersible has to take desperate measures or else they'll sink with their precious cargo.
- 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.
- DirectorGabriela CalvacheStarsNoëlle SchönwaldCristian MercadoJaime TamarizShe is the perfect woman until she decides to be free.
- DirectorSebastián CorderoStarsJohn LeguizamoAlfred MolinaLeonor WatlingA suspense thriller about a reporter from Miami who travels to Ecuador in pursuit of a serial killer known as the "Monster of Babahoyo."
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorCamilo LuzuriagaStarsLissette CabreraRossana IturraldeVerónica GarcíaThe wild and wanton Francisca, known as the "The Tigress," is the eldest of three sisters, who are bosses of a farm in Ecuador. A medicine man tells Francisca and Juliana that their youngest sister Sara must remain a virgin to protect their land. A travelling salesman, engaged to Sara, tells the police that she is being kept locked up by her older sisters.
- DirectorCamilo LuzuriagaStarsFelipe TeranAristides VargasLissette CabreraAn author gets lost between the book he is writing and the reality and a love that does not exist and the ideals of revolution.
- DirectorViviana CorderoStarsVanessa AlvarioAna María BalarezoNadia Acevedo CorderoIn order to help her brothers and mother, Lucia is forced to thieve.
- 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.
- DirectorJavier AndradeStarsAnahí HoeneisenMatilde LagosJuan Lorenzo BarragánWhen Luisa, 45, returns from a psychiatric clinic after a bout with severe postpartum depression, she enters a new confinement in her dazzling home, surrounded by family members and a brigade of servants who expect her struggles to remain invisible. Unable to continue playing the role of the perfect housewife, Luisa's only escape is to waltz elegantly into madness.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorRoberto EstrellaStarsCarlos ValenciaUriel ArceChristopher AndrewsAnything Goes / Vale Todo is the personal story of two men on separate downward spirals whose lives interact, triggering a bond between them that transforms both their lives. Andre is a depressed LA sports agent who goes back to his homeland of Ecuador to piece his life back together. Vicente, a day laborer in Ecuador who's seen some of life's harsher times, crosses paths with Andre one night after Vincent saves his life during a robbery. Witnessing Vicente's skills as a fighter, Andre has him train with legendary Royce Gracie in mixed martial arts preparation for the ultimate fighting championship in Las Vegas.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorCamilo LuzuriagaStarsJosé AlvearJosé ArlearGiselle CalderónThe plot is based on the book by Juan Valdano, and revolves around the events that took place in the city of Quito between August 10, 1809, when the First Cry of Independence took place in the Spanish colony of the Presidency of Quito, and on August 2, 1810, when the Massacre of the Próceres occurred in the hands of the peninsular authorities.
- DirectorVíctor ArreguiStarsLuis CañizaresRandi KrarupDavid Nieto WenzellA murder sets in motion a series of tragedies that find their way to the city morgue's Dr. Arturo Fernandez. Physically and emotionally isolated, Arturo develops an intimate relationship with the personal lives of his cases, forcing him to confront his connection to the living and the dead. This dark, serpentine tale offers a richly textured rendering of Ecuador's capital.
- 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.
- DirectorMiguel AlvearStarsAndrés CrespoIs there an audience for Latin American movies? These are some of the questions posed by an Ecuadorian filmmaker whose latest movie was a commercial flop. He embarks on a query to find answers to his questions and relief for his despair. His research leads him to a giant contraband market in the port city of Guayaquil, where pirated movies from all over the world are sold for one dollar each. Here, he discovers a number of Ecuadorian low budget movies produced by amateurs, with titles he had never heard of before: from action packed productions to evangelical melodramas.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorViviana CorderoStarsJoaquín WappensteinMaría Teresa GuerreroPedro SaadMateo (20) suffers epileptic seizures almost daily. His life is a blend of habitual routines and the dreamlike world he senses during his seizures. His life is transformed when he meets Natalia, a young, enchanting and crazy lady.
- DirectorTania HermidaStarsTania MartinezCecilia VallejoPancho AguirreEsperanza and Tristeza both have to get to Cuenca. However, by an unlucky turn of events, the bus they are on gets delayed due to a worker strike. Taking their journey into their own hands, they decide to hitchhike to Cuenca. Along the way they meet interesting characters who help them re-evaluate the purpose of their journey.
- A boy whose love for his parents is very great, has to live the dissolution of his family, and the school becomes his only refuge, where the director will teach him to have faith in God so that he can reunite his family.
- DirectorAlejandro LalaleoStarsErika VélezDiego UlloaEdu MaruriThe internet came to change everything, even love. These are 5 stories that show us that although love has changed, it continues to make us do the same crazy things.
- DirectorMarco de la TorreStarsWilliams ArauzChristoph BaumannJashua FiallosAn innocent prayer on the mountain will unleash a forest of questions, but also of mercy for 3 boys from 2 families living with their problems.
- DirectorGregorich DwightStarsKaren MonteroPancho Tello
- DirectorSantiago PaladinesStarsFrancisco PazmiñoDaniel CalvopiñaGabriel HaedoThree friends, longing for a higher status in society, put their lives and those of their families on the line, the day they receive a strange business proposal that promises to turn them into millionaires overnight.