Arthur (2017)

Incitada por su novio, Emily convence a su madre para ir a un viaje juntas a Ecuador. Pero una vez allí ambas mujeres son secuestradas, comenzando una aventura salvaje en el que su vínculo como madre e hija se fortalecerá mientras intentan escapar.

Jennifer Corvino, hija de un famoso actor de Hollywood, llega a la Academia Richard Wagner, un internado para jovencitas situado en las montañas que rodean Zurich, en Suiza. Al tiempo de su ingreso, se empiezan a suceder en la zona una serie de brutales asesinatos cometidos por un anónimo psicópata, con especial preferencia por las núbiles alumnas del exclusivo colegio. Jennifer, que tiene los dones paranormales de la telequinesia y la telepatía, intentará desenmascarar al sádico que aterroriza a sus compañeras y descubrir qué terrible secreto encierran los muros de aquella institución.

Un ex agente de la CIA reconvertido en presentador de un programa de televisión sobre política es contratado por un lobby de empresas con el fin de encubrir su relación con una masacre que ha tenido lugar en un pueblo de Sudamérica.

Luego de una separación, Julia se muda a un frío departamento donde enfrenta los conflictos cotidianos de la soledad: pasar el día en pijamas, aceptar trabajos mediocres y comer en exceso, mientras aplica a una beca para cumplir su sueño de ser escritora. Julia encuentra un nuevo comienzo cuando tiene una aventura con Darío, un atractivo mesero con ínfulas de poeta, quien la lleva a conocer a Ignacio, empleado de una fotocopiadora que trata de protagonizar una obra de teatro.

Two hundred years after Charles Darwin set foot on the shores of the Galápagos Islands, David Attenborough travels to this wild and mysterious archipelago. Amongst the flora and fauna of these enchanted volcanic islands, Darwin formulated his groundbreaking theories on evolution. Journey with Attenborough to explore how life on the islands has continued to evolve in biological isolation, and how the ever-changing volcanic landscape has given birth to species and sub-species that exist nowhere else in the world. Encompassing treacherous journeys, life-forms that forge unlikely companionships, and survival against all odds, Galápagos tells the story of an evolutionary melting pot in which anything and everything is possible.

Sandra Chase vive una segunda juventud desde que está saliendo con un hombre más joven que ella. Pero la felicidad se trunca cuando, al regresar de un viaje a Ecuador, son detenidos en el aeropuerto. La policía ha encontrado cocaína en su maleta y Sandra es conducida a una prisión federal sin defensa posible. Su hija es informada y se pone en marcha para conseguir un abogado para su madre, quien sufre una enfermedad crónica que necesita un tratamiento específico urgente. Basada en hechos reales. (FILMAFFINITY)

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.

For consumers, bananas are a delicious and nutritious start to the day, a healthy snack and a fixture in our fruit bowls. For millions of residents in the banana lands, the production of bananas means social upheaval, violence and pesticide poisoning. Banana Land explores the origins of these disparate realities, and opens the conversation on how workers, producers and consumers can address this disconnect.

En una Suiza distópica que ha caído bajo el dominio fascista de un malvado tirano del queso, Heidi vive la vida pura y simple en los Alpes suizos. El abuelo Alpöhi hace todo lo posible para proteger a Heidi, pero su anhelo de libertad pronto la mete en problemas con los secuaces del dictador. La niña inocente se transforma en una fuerza de lucha que se propone liberar al país de los locos fascistas del queso.

The Royal Tour is a groundbreaking series of television specials, produced and hosted by Emmy Award-winning journalist and CBS News Travel Editor Peter Greenberg. Guided by some of the most dynamic and powerful heads of state, Peter journeys deep inside each country to offer viewers an all access pass to extraordinary locations, historic landmarks, and cultural experiences. In this latest edition, Peter received a royal tour from the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa. For an entire week, Mr. Correa became the ultimate guide, showcasing the visual gems that his country has to offer. They took four camera crews along as they swam with piranha in the Amazon rainforest, went whale watching off the coast of Manta, shopped like a local in a rural town in the Andes Mountains, returned to the President's hometown of Guayaquil and the school he attended, visited a cacao plantation (aka chocolate) farm in Cacao, and went diving with sharks in the Galápagos Islands.

Scenes of daily life in the Indian communities of Ecuador.

Beyond the punches, boxing paints a complex portrait of life itself - its obstacles, the discipline, the commitment. With the stories of a child aspiring boxer, and a young amateur boxer, the film weaves a tale about the triumph of human spirit both in ring and in life.

This documentary profiles Rafael Correa, an established economist who was elected Ecuador's president in 2006 and quickly transformed a country with archaic structures into a participatory democracy.

A 13-year-old Indian boy is found unconscious after being attacked in the jungle by the evil spirit Fayu Ujmu. A shaman attempts to ritually tame the spirit and advises the boy’s father to capture it. This story is based on a Chachi Indian legend; it was shot with indigenous inhabitants of the jungle community of Loma Linda, on the Rio Cayapas.

Lisa, the brothel madam of the luxurious “Le Vénusia” in Geneva, and Lena, an artless prostitute as unpredictable as she is lazy, are filmed in the intimacy of a smoking room—where their relationship will combine tenderness and cruelty.

In order to rescue his father's ramshackle grill restaurant, filmmaker and vegetarian Dario Aguirre is traveling back to his homeland Ecuador. What starts out as a strange debate about opening times, chips and Excel spread sheets, develops into a moving family drama.

The life and works of Ecuadorian writer Marcelo Chiriboga, a key figure of the Latin American literature and member of the “boom” generation. Through interviews, visits to different cities, archival footage and his most important book, a puzzle is woven that blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction.

This short film focuses on the evolving country of Ecuador.

For twenty years the Wiesenbergers cultivated the same rituals. Practising once a week in the local chappel and singing for weddings and birthdays. Meanwhile, their world turned upside down. Their CD is rising up the charts and they're overwhelmed with concert request - showbusiness is calling. Now, they even were invited to perform in Shanghai. But the tempting offer puts their solidarity to a test.

Until the 1950s, the Waorani were able to successfully defended their area of settlement – today’s Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon – with the aid of spears. Then Christian missionaries entered the thick rain forest and paved the way for an oil company. Nowadays many of the tribes are estranged as some want to benefit from the short-term money the company is offering while others fight to preserve their land, culture and independence under all circumstances.