Esteban Brauer

1820. A group of patriots forge the independence of Guayaquil and Ecuador.

Tato (17), es un huérfano a la deriva, un joven amante del rap. Junto a sus amigos Pitu (18) y La Crespa (16), buscan una alternativa a la muerte y el crimen, a través del arte del hip hop y las batallas callejeras. Tato tiene que huir, y su única opción es dejar la ciudad y vivir con su abuelo Octavio (78), un floricultor, a quien no conoce, y que desea heredar sus tradiciones. Dos generaciones, dos formas de vida y un continuo sentimiento de pérdida, muerte y soledad llueven sobre la vida de Tato en su lucha por sobrevivir y encontrar su propia identidad.

De los creadores de Enchufe.TV, esta es la historia de JULIA, una adolescente de América Latina que ha vivido en Estados Unidos la mayor parte de su vida. Ella es popular, una exitosa Youtuber y quiere convertirse en la reina del baile. Todo cambia abruptamente cuando su familia tiene que regresar a Ecuador. ¿A qué tendrá que enfrentarse? Acostumbrarse a una nueva cultura y una escuela secundaria católica no será fácil. La "gringa" se convierte en el blanco de "La Reinas", tres populares matones que gobiernan la escuela. Julia es ahora una inadaptada que tendrá que ganarse el afecto de sus nuevos amigos para poder sobrevivir.

A woman travels through a virtual world in which she is only recognized through her publications on social media or her reflections on the screen. Her day seems to pass in the circuits of a virtual platform where she interacts with other Internet users, chatting, reading articles online or ordering delivery. She is interrupted by a sound that forces her to walk through her house until she discovers something that will reveal the most painful and revealing aspects of her own existence.

Un narco submarino hecho a mano está a punto de hundirse y perder su preciosa carga debido a una falla mecánica. Los tres tripulantes se ven obligados a abrir la cabina de carga prohibida para distribuir el peso y salvar el barco. Junto a la carga encuentran un “obsequio” especial para el comprador: una niña, amordazada y en pésimo estado. El bote, apenas lo suficientemente grande para tres para empezar, se convierte en una torta de polvo humeante de miedos, deseos y codicia.

Mariano Cruz Ordóñez is an Ecuadorian bullfighter at the end of his artistic career. Mariano was a figure of bullfighting in Ecuador and participated in the most important bullrings of his country and the world. The glory years have passed and prohibitions have arisen regarding bullfighting shows, and the only thing left is, with tenacity and faith, to fight against various adverse circumstances looking for a chance to move foward.

En el norte pampeano, restos de una población yacen ocultos bajo la tierra hace más de un siglo. Su descubrimiento casual es el punto de partida con el que se intenta desentrañar ese misterio. Allí donde la soja reina, lo que se libra es una batalla más en la constante puja del cine contra el olvido.

Caridad no ha hablado con su padre en años, desde que él dejó el hogar bajo una ola de sospechas y acusaciones. Pero eso cambia cuando un volcán despierta con una explosión de cenizas, y Caridad se encuentra aislada y atrapada en la zona de riesgo. Sin mayor opción, contacta a su padre y confronta las emociones que reprimió durante tantos años.

Caridad no ha hablado con su padre en años, desde que él dejó el hogar bajo una ola de sospechas y acusaciones. Pero eso cambia cuando un volcán despierta con una explosión de cenizas, y Caridad se encuentra aislada y atrapada en la zona de riesgo. Sin mayor opción, contacta a su padre y confronta las emociones que reprimió durante tantos años.

Sara is 23 years old and is blind. One morning she goes to her country house accompanied by her boyfriend Jose Luis, her cousin Carolina and her boyfriend Pedro. At first the trip seems to be quite fun, but there is a strange energy in this country house as a result of a very dark past. As time goes by, the truth begins to unfold, and the intentions of each of the characters engages them in unexpected carnal desires. All this happens around Sara's blindness.

A look at the life of Toty Rodríguez: An actress who made her career in France during the 60s, a well-known Diva in Ecuador as well as an icon of the women rights. She returns to Paris with her nephew to revisit her past in a town that changed her life.

David and Lucia are two strangers. Once, a while back, they were not. David has always been shy; Lucia always lovely. The rest of the story is just life and its turns. one early morning, at a gas station, they meet by coincidence. The conversation will shake their certainties. Although, they are not the same people anymore, there are things that never change.

Fifteen years ago Pablo, Andres, Juan and Carolina were together for the last time. The days when their lives revolved around the old hideout were they grew up as teenagers are now over. It was during 1987 when the adventure that made them fell free ended abruptly. Two seconds changed everything forever. A story that starts as an apparently normal reunion of old friends evolves into the pursuit to rebuild their lives with the pieces of others that were broken.

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.

The life of Swedish explorer Rolf Blomberg: his books and his films, his photographs and his illustrations. Blomberg explored Ecuador as few others have done and created this vast and exciting work. He arrived in 1934 to study the Galapagos Islands and returned many times to film, write and photograph the natives and the fishermen, the cities and the rainforest. This film explores the explorer through his work. Developed exclusively based on the enormous visual legacy of Blomberg, we travel to a different time and find a view that, despite the passage of time, remains intact. Today, viewing his work, we see how the entire self-identity of the country might have been very different.

Satya was born in the countryside, in the middle of the world. Helen and Nicola, her mothers, wanted her to be born there, in the peace of his home. They wanted Satya to be Ecuadorian. Two weeks after her birth, Helen and Nicola went to the Ecuadorian Civil Registry office to register her daughter under both mothers' last names. Their request was denied. This is the story of a family established in a country with a Constitution that recognizes their rights but with a State that does not guarantee those rights and a society where many still deny them completely.

Jorge, a young Ecuadorian, is unexpectedly in the middle of the jungle as an inexperienced soldier. At first, Jorge is confident that military experience makes you a recognized and respected man. But he finds out that the reality is very different; as the private may face neglect, hunger, death and nature, especially human nature. Captive in an enemy camp, Jorge must discover who he has become as he recovers from his injuries and struggles to escape with his fellow prisoner Hugo or stay there under the care of the Peruvian nurse Dolores. Difficult decisions ... beyond the target and border that divides them are abound.

Aurora, 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.

Being different is no easy task. And when the difference is so visible, like albinism, or so burdensome, like a heart condition, things get harder. Albino introvert Tito must travel from Panama to Costa Rica to pick up his sick father. Not having spoken to his father in years, their reunion is less than desired. César has always lived on his own terms and would rather deal with his weakness alone. And Tito would rather not deal with anyone. So, the ride back to Panama is a bit heated. They might kill each other but not without first confronting their anxieties and the reasons for the distance kept between them for so long

A meeting between the daughter and the grandmother of the director, Iván Mora Manzano, at a time when the memories of one, the girl’s, were taking shape, and the other’s the grandmother’s, were vanishing. This starting point is used as a pretext to talk about other topics such as the importance of family memories and the search for memory.

En el Nombre de la Hija tells the story of a nine-year old girl whose name is in dispute. Manuela has been named alter her socialist-atheist father, but her catholic-conservative grandmother insists she should carry the name the first daughters of the family have carried for generations: Dolores. The story takes place in a Valley in the Ecuadorian Andes, during the summer of 1976. Manuela and her little brother, Camilo, are spending vacations with their cousins and grandparents at the family's farmhouse. Eager to defend her father's ideas, Manuela confronts her cousins and grandparents, but an unexpected encounter leads her to confront herself instead. Hidden in the family's abandoned library, schizophrenic uncle Felipe is devoted to setting words free from the constraints of dogmas. His wisdom sets Manuela free from her own dogmas and forever changes her relationship with words, including her own name.

Matal es un pueblo pesquero en la costa de Manabi donde Blanquito (Andrés Crespo) vive con su madre. En este pueblo todo es tranquilo y cotidiano hasta que un día aparecen en la playa paquetes llenos de cocaína. Blanquito y una colombiana, Lorna (María Cecilia Sánchez), deciden emprender un viaje a Guayaquil, donde ella conoce gente que pagará hasta cinco veces más por cada paquete. Blanquito no sabe que en los próximos días perderá la cabeza por amor y que la realidad lo llevarán a cambios importantes en su vida.

Is 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.

Documentary about ecuadorian writer Jorge Enrique Adoum.

Jonathan and Romario are two Afro-Ecuadorian children from the Chota Valley, one of the poorest regions of Ecuador. Their fate can be one of two: to become world-class footballers like Ulises de la Cruz, Chucho Benitez and Antonio Valencia, or farmers like Darwin. This documentary reveals the lack of opportunities, discrimination, and economic and social segregation that black communities face in Ecuador.

November 7th, 2001. After a seventy years absence, the Ecuadorian national soccer team is close to qualifying for the first time to a Soccer World Cup. This documentary follows the events that took place during that historic date, when a whole country lived under the shadow of a soccer game.

One 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.

Pedro Matías Ampudia (Aristides Vargas) es un bibliotecario que vive y trabaja en la ciudad de Quito,1​ capital de la Presidencia homónima dentro del imperio español en América. Luego de que las autoridades hispanas peninsulares recobraran el control del territorio tras una revuelta iniciada el 10 de agosto de 1809, cuando los criollos destituyeron al presidente Manuel Ruiz Urriés de Castilla e instalaron su propia Junta de Gobierno Autónoma, y de la que Ampudia formó parte, este fue apresado junto con los demás implicados en la asonada. Ampudia planea huir del encierro ayudado por su amante mestiza Judit (Marilú Vaca), hija de un reconocido pintor de la escuela quiteña de arte,1​ de quien también se enamora peligrosamente el coronel español Manuel Arredondo (Gonzalo Gonzalo), jefe de las tropas llegadas desde Lima para reprimir la insurrección en la ciudad y custodiar a los presos

Adaptation of Pablo Palacio short story that through a teacher and a group of his students, presents an exercise of dispersion and annihilation converted into an aesthetic object.

After a nuclear catastrophe, a man who did not know how to continue living in silence went out to look for sounds, voices and whispers in the remains of a scorched nature.

Fantasy feature film

Fantasy feature film