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- Ecuadorian series of comic sketches about funny situations in Latin America related to teenagers and youngsters.
- During the Second World War, the allies' key objective was to crack the German army's encrypted communications code. Without a doubt, the key player in this game was Alan Turing, an interdisciplinary scientist and a long-forgotten hero.
- '3 familias' tells the stories of 3 families from different social classes in different situations in Ecuador.
- It is the story of four women who, for reasons of fate, come to live in the rental rooms of a villa located in a popular neighborhood of Guayaquil. These four women have a common denominator, they all have a past marked by heartbreak and disappointment and they all seek to get ahead to become winning women. Intrigue, heartbreak, romance and comedy, will be the main ingredients of this story of broken hearts, a story of human beings, all with one characteristic: they are the empty glass that will seek to fill up little by little.
- Salvador'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.
- The crew of a narco submersible has to take desperate measures or else they'll sink with their precious cargo.
- Millions find each year that they cannot afford to live in the US if they have a major health crisis, or a housing crisis, or if they simply wish to retire, so they start looking at living abroad. Today, the American Dream is found in other countries as an expatriate. Felicia Brings is one of those expats.
- Alba, 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.
- She is the perfect woman until she decides to be free.
- 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 his nearly decade-long reign of terror. However, Ecuadorian laws benefited the murderer by giving him a shorter sentence and even the option of leaving in less time. When the Monster's release draws near, a group of family members struggle to find ways to keep him in jail, while he, from the inside, searches through a series of letters to clear his name and unmask the real killer: Jorge Patiño. The problem is that Jorge Patiño exists only in his mind.
- A suspense thriller about a reporter from Miami who travels to Ecuador in pursuit of a serial killer known as the "Monster of Babahoyo."
- Esperanza 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.
- The 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.
- A Hungarian explorer claims to have discovered a "Gold Library" inside a cave. Lacking evidence, he tries to get the recognition he believes he deserves but struggles to get support from the local governments and religious leaders.
- The 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.
- Pipe 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.
- Loner 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.
- A 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.
- It shows the life of sea lions in their unique environment.
- Legend 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.
- A 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.
- From the creators of Enchufe.TV, this is the story of JULIA, a teenager from Latin America who has lived in the U.S. most of her life. She is popular, a successful Youtuber and wants to become prom queen. Everything changes abruptly when her family has to return to Ecuador. What will she have to face? Getting used to a new culture and a catholic high school will not be easy. The "gringa" becomes the target of "La Reinas", three popular bullies who rule the school. Julia is now a misfit who will have to earn her new friends' affection in order to survive.
- Iris and Ariel are 14 year old twins who live with their mother and their older sister Lia on a beach filled with mollusks and reptiles. Their relationship goes beyond the limits of common intimacy.
- The series portrays the life of Julio Jaramillo, Ecuadorian singer and composer.
- Legend has it that on July 7, each 100 years in "enchanted lake", a mysterious girl will test her charms to help the people of good heart and punish people corrupt.
- It'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.
- An author gets lost between the book he is writing and the reality and a love that does not exist and the ideals of revolution.
- Three 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.
- The 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.
- Everything 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.
- Mariangula, an obsessed lady, to win she will do everything in her power to reach for glory, but her actions will bring fatal consequences for her and the people around. Mariangula based on the most traditional legend of Ecuador.
- Blaquito 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.
- Leo (27) returns to Las Maravillas, his mining town in southern Ecuador, because Tiberio (60s), his macho father, is dying. Returning reunites him with Ricardo (27), a miner who was his first love and also confronts his true identity with his father. As he navigates the reunion and the farewell, Clarita (45), a trans woman and Shaman, will teach him that we are more than what we can see.
- Iván Vallejo, the first Ecuadorian to conquer Everest (in 1999), decides to make a film commemorating his journey and invites Sebastián Cordero, an Ecuadorian filmmaker who premiered his debut feature in Venice the same year Iván achieved his feat. Together, they embark on a journey to Nepal where they realize they share many life coincidences but have opposing views on how to envision the documentary. Conversations about mountains and cinema will lead to an exchange of philosophical reflections. As the days pass, the increase in altitude and decrease in oxygen will elevate the debate to transcendental inner territories, challenging both their trajectories and personal significance in the face of the mountain's ancient magnitude and depth.
- Isabel'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.
- An epic journey into the depths of the underworld and the depths within ourselves.
- As 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.
- Ecuadorian athlete Millán Ludeña, embarks on his new adventure to be the first athlete to register a new Guinness World Record for his beloved country.
- Miranda, 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.
- On the northern coast of Ecuador, on Tolita Island, dozens of Afro-Ecuadorian children gather on the beach to collect Pre-Colombian artifacts that are scattered across the sand. They are all searching through the debris for pieces that they can somehow fix and sell to tourists on the mainland. Washo, a fifty-year-old unemployed fisherman, watches the children at their work while he recovers from a hangover. His fractured relationship with his daughter Yessica (6 years old) creates a distance between them. He leaves her with his ex-wife, who is upset with him for his irresponsibility as father. In the tropical heat of the night, Washo tries to fit the pieces of a clay figure back together like a puzzle. The scant catch of the season and the poor sales from his coconut grove only earn him enough to buy a bottle of moonshine and go out to the town's only bar on the makeshift docks, where the lights flicker thanks to the shortage of electricity. The alcohol and the precariousness of his life bring out his violent personality, which ends up permanently damaging his relationship with his daughter's mother. The sound of the waves breaking on the rocks of Isla DE la Plata (Silver Island) merges with the sounds of a boat from which Joselito (60 years old) descends. He is a native of the Ecuadorian coast and is dealing with the disappointment of the huaqueros (tomb raiders) who are complaining about the lack of results; they haven't found anything in the place where he suggested they excavate. Upon returning to the mainland, we can see how Joselito's museum has been destroyed by the recent earthquake. His brother urges him to sell all of his artifacts; thanks to the earthquake they need to rebuild their house and take care of their sick mother. But he refuses, confident that they will be able to find more pieces to sell. Excavating in another rural area of Valdivia, surrounded by a thick dry forest, an unexpected accident traps one of the huaqueros underground, and he suffocates to death. Impacted by the loss and limited by his lack of resources, Joselito sells off everything in his museum to a business magnate in the big city. After the deal is done, in which he practically has to give away his most valuable pieces for a laughable sum, he wanders through the city feeling lost, watching a backhoe digging a giant hole to build a new building. The trees begin to thin out in the arid landscape of Sipán, in northern Peru. Filo (50 year old) is talking to his lawyer who, through great legal maneuvering, has managed to get him out of prison, even though he has refused to admit anything about the robbery of El Señor DE Sipán (The Lord of Sipán), one of the greatest archeological finds in history, at the hands of huaqueros. After his time in prison Filo wanders like a ghost in his own home; his wife and son suffer the beatings of his depression, which has greatly deteriorated his relationship at home. He tries to support his family through his work in the sugarcane fields and in the little field of corn that he has beside the Mochica pyramid, where a great treasure was found years ago. But his efforts are in vain; the sugarcane company withholds his wages and he loses his own farm to an illegal fire. Tempted by necessity, he accepts the invitation of his friend who brings him to raid a tomb, insisting he knows the location of a new Moche treasure. Despite his wife's protests, he brings his son with him. After several hours of fruitless digging, a dozen police officers flood the camp and catch them red-handed. Once at the police station, Filo sees his lawyer again, who looks at him with disappointment when seeing that this time he has gotten his son involved. The desert spills infinitely in front of the ocean. The three giant pyramids of the archeological complex "Huaca del Brujo" (The Sorcerer's Tomb) pose motionless against the landscape. Juan helps his pregnant wife to gather mollusks at low tide. There is tension between them; what they earn will not be enough for what is coming next in their lives. At night Juan tries to catch crabs with his friends, but only manages to gather a few kilos. Roberto, an experienced huaquero from Magdalena DE Cao, Peru, invites Juan to help with a robbery. They walk together, posing as tourists as they examine the artifacts of the Sorcerer's Tomb, exploring its structure and its possible discoveries. At night, they approach the undefended tomb to excavate. But they are greatly surprised when, upon finding the treasure, a sun lights them up completely, turning the night into day. They escape with a few things and upon returning home, Juan finds his wife on the floor, covered in blood. Meanwhile Robert begins to have nightmares thanks to a crown of feathers he has stolen; in the morning, disturbed, he takes his motorbike and rides to the beach. Furiously he pours gasoline on all the loot and sets it on fire. He watches statically as everything burns in front of the ocean. "Huaquero" ventures down the South American coast, unearthing people and places that are apparently unconnected, but united by the precarious activity of selling archaeological artifacts from their ancestral cultures. Beginning in the lush equatorial jungle and ending in the desert landscape of the Peruvian coast, the film explores a masculinity torn apart by the necessity and the insanity of being forced to raid tombs in order to try to get ahead, and failing. The rural mood and its legends of the huaqueros filter throughout all the stories, and through the light that appears to leave them continuously in oblivion. The rawness of the documentation mixes with the fantasy of the mythological and poetic countryside, where it appears that the ancestors still speak of their pain through the holes inflicted on their sacred places, their "huacas" or tombs.
- Transfigured in the body of Soledad, model and girlfriend of photographer Sebastián, his mother has returned to life with a single objective: to organize the life of what was her little boy when she died.
- In 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.
- "Raspando coco" documents the health impacts and cultural and culinary traditions surrounding coconut as remembered and experienced by Afro-Ecuadorians in the northern coastal region of Esmeraldas, Ecuador.