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- 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.
- 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."
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorMateo HerreraStarsLuis LaraRaul LaraRaul Lara, Ecuadorian luthier works around seven months in the construction of each instrument. Sometimes staying for four consecutive months inside his workshop, place in which time and space are surreal. The guitar becomes alive and receives its soul in here.
- 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"
- DirectorMateo HerreraStarsCecilia VallejoEnrique AcostaLady EstrellaJessica is a rebellious 17-year-old living with her aunt and grandmother in Quito. Her absent mother has stopped sending money, causing rifts within the family. When she decides to search for the father she's never met, she ends up in the country home of her father's brother and his wife, where the mirrors are always covered and the air is thick with fog and mystery. An atmospheric blend of magical realism and traditional horror, this film was a triumph for the Ecuadorian film industry, winning the Grand Prix at the Toulouse Film Festival.
- DirectorMateo HerreraStarsLorena CisnerosBoris IdrovoJorge NuñezThe documentary chronicles the 139 years of occupation that had the ex penal García Moreno and traces left by the inmates to be transferred to the new prison in the Sierra Norte in the province of Cotopaxi.
- DirectorTomás AstudilloStarsRafael CorreaBeyond being a historical record this film explores the implied duality of Rafael Correa's public figure. The behind-the-scenes 2013 presidential re-election race, in campaign-distant black and white invites us to reflect on Ecuador's way of doing politics.
- DirectorDaniel AndradeAnahí HoeneisenStarsNicolás AndradeAnahí HoeneisenAmaia MerinoOne day five women from Quito, friends in their teens, decide to get back together after fourteen years. Helena is waiting for her second child, Marina lives the ups and downs of infidelity, Diana, an early widow, shares her loneliness with her 15 year old daughter and Tamara has not abandoned the random life of nightclubs, men and drugs. The purpose of their get-together is to visit their old classmate, Alejandra, who is consumed by an illness. "Esas No Son Penas" is a portrait of the group, in which each person brings the lights and shadows of her paradoxical middle clas sstatus in a city nestled in the Andes. At that meeting, fortuitous and unusual, these women teter to-and-fro between guilt and hope, loneliness and comradarie - a tapestry of emotions exploding in the middle of the apparent routine of everyday life.
- DirectorDaniel AndradeAnahí HoeneisenStarsAndres AlvaresAndres AlvarezNicolás AndradePablo, Andres and Juan, get into their biggest teenager adventure, when Juan decides to run away from home. He is not willing to go back because his father, an old fashioned policeman, wants to change him to a military school. After a car accident, Pablo flees, never to return. 15 years later, he comes back to Ecuador to face what he left in the past. OCHENTAYSIETE is a drama about friendship and forgiveness, a movie that shows the innocence of adolescent friendship and its maturation process.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorManuel CalistoAlex CisnerosStarsManuel CalistoAlex CisnerosSonia ValdezTwo inseparable friends. Martin is a bureaucrat who seeks to overcome every day, even though deep down he knows he will never leave his office desk. Daniel is a womanizer unstable without goals, but with a mathematical gift.
- DirectorJuan Esteban CorderoViviana CorderoStarsJuan Esteban CorderoViviana CorderoA group of musicians move to a ranch in order to capture the sound of the Andes in their first disc.
- DirectorViviana CorderoStarsVanessa AlvarioAna María BalarezoNadia Acevedo CorderoIn order to help her brothers and mother, Lucia is forced to thieve.
- DirectorViviana CorderoStarsSegundo BenitzVela Juana GuardenerasPablo HanibalWhen a new priest arrives in a small Andean village, the lives of its inhabitants begin to change.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorAna Cristina BarragánStarsMacarena AriasPablo Aguirre AndradeAmaia MerinoAlba, 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.
- 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.