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- DirectorLaurel Spellman SmithLaurel Spellman SmithFrancine Strickwerda'Oil & Water' is the story of two boys coming of age in the middle of one of the world's worst toxic disasters: the contamination of Ecuador's Amazon region by reckless oil drilling. Hugo comes to America to fight for the survival of his Amazonian tribe, while David goes to Ecuador to launch the world's first company to certify oil as 'fair trade.' Their journeys lead them to explore what could be a more just future for people around the world born with oil beneath their feet. Eight years in the making, 'Oil & Water' is a shocking and inspiring David and Goliath story.
- 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.
- DirectorDavid Holguín WagnerStarsSofía AbedrabboMayra BenalcázarEdgar CastellanosA portrait of one of the most emblematic bands of Ecuador, Mamá Vudú.
- 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."
- DirectorJuliano Ribeiro SalgadoWim WendersStarsSebastião SalgadoWim WendersLélia Wanick SalgadoThe life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.
- DirectorRon HowardStarsChris HemsworthCillian MurphyBrendan GleesonA recounting of a New England whaling ship's sinking by a giant whale in 1820, an experience that later inspired the great novel Moby-Dick.
- DirectorManolo SarmientoA botanical expedition in Ecuador's Amazon becomes a medium for an indigenous Huaorani community to remember the genocidal colonization it suffered in the 1960s. Meanwhile, a group of ecologists from the capital tries to stop oil exploitation in the last remaining forests where the isolated Huaoranis still live, who to this day refuse to come into contact with civilization.
- DirectorTaylor HackfordStarsDamian ChapaJesse BorregoBenjamin BrattBased on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on step-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo.
- DirectorMaría Fernanda RestrepoThe history about the family of Restrepo brothers and what they're doing until nowadays for solve the mystery of the dissapearence of the Restrepo brothers made by the "Ecuador's National Police"
- DirectorLisandra RiveraManolo SarmientoThe yet unexplained death of Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós in 1981 leads to a reflection on how official truth determines our present.
- DirectorYanara Guayasamín
- DirectorRainer SimonStarsJan Josef LiefersMonika LennartzGötz SchubertIn 1802, Alexandre De Humbolt and Aimé Bonpland stayed in Ecuador to study the topography of the country. Their goal is to climb the Chimborazo volcano, reaching 6,267 meters and considered at the time as the highest peak in the world.
- 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.
- DirectorEva ZeligStarsAnne AnkerKurt FreundPablo FreundStory of European Jews who fled Europe escaping the Nazi terror to find refuge in an unlikely destination: Ecuador -- barely known at the time.
- 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.
- DirectorDaniel GellerDayna GoldfineStarsCate BlanchettSebastian KochThomas KretschmannAbout a series of unsolved disappearances on the Galapagos Island of Floreana in the 1930s.
- DirectorJoshua MarstonStarsCatalina Sandino MorenoGuilied LopezOrlando TobónA pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately-needed money for her family.
- DirectorJoshua MarstonStarsCatalina Sandino MorenoGuilied LopezOrlando TobónA pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately-needed money for her family.
- DirectorNixon AndyEriberto GualingaTawnaDocumentary about the 42 years of struggle of Confeniae, the Amazonian regional of CONAIE. A story of unity, territory, justice and freedom.
- DirectorNora SalgadoStarsMariano Cruz ArellanoAlba CruzCayetana CruzMariano Cruz Ordoñez is a bullfighter who is living the middle of his life and the end of his artistic career. He was a figure of bullfighting in Ecuador and has performed in the most important venues of his country and the world, he lived the glory. The years have passed and prohibitions have arisen regarding bullfighting, the successes have already been consumed and he only has left to fight against several adverse circumstances. Now he has three daughters, who are his reason to be, his energy, his motor of life and now he is forced to separate from them with the objective of moving forward.