Juan José Luzuriaga

Victor was victim of a violent attack during the government of León Febres Cordero in 1987. More than 30 years later, he decides to free himself from the weight of the secrets and ghosts that has carried for many years and speak out.

Nunkui is 13 years old and lives in an Amazonian Shuar community with her grandparents, uncles and cousins. She frequently dreams of the feminine spirit of the garden, named Nunkui like her. The girl does not know this spirit, she does not understand her dreams and is afraid; she fears that it is a dangerous spirit, an Iwianch. Curiosity, anguish and food shortages lead Nunkui to discover the knowledge of Rosa, her great-aunt, who still cultivates a traditional garden (aja shuar). Little by little, the garden and the sacred songs (anents) become a refuge for the young woman.

Nunkui is 13 years old and lives in an Amazonian Shuar community with her grandparents, uncles and cousins. She frequently dreams of the feminine spirit of the garden, named Nunkui like her. The girl does not know this spirit, she does not understand her dreams and is afraid; she fears that it is a dangerous spirit, an Iwianch. Curiosity, anguish and food shortages lead Nunkui to discover the knowledge of Rosa, her great-aunt, who still cultivates a traditional garden (aja shuar). Little by little, the garden and the sacred songs (anents) become a refuge for the young woman.

Un precario estafador se aprovecha económicamente de una niña que dicen tiene visiones de la Virgen María y a quien muchos consideran milagrosa. Junto a los padres de la niña, generará un negocio grande y lucrativo.

Un precario estafador se aprovecha económicamente de una niña que dicen tiene visiones de la Virgen María y a quien muchos consideran milagrosa. Junto a los padres de la niña, generará un negocio grande y lucrativo.

Un precario estafador se aprovecha económicamente de una niña que dicen tiene visiones de la Virgen María y a quien muchos consideran milagrosa. Junto a los padres de la niña, generará un negocio grande y lucrativo.

Luisa, de 45 años, regresa de un centro psiquiátrico después de una severa depresión postparto. Su deslumbrante hogar se vuelve su nuevo lugar de confinamiento, rodeada de su familia y una cuadrilla de empleados que se esfuerzan para que sus arrebatos permanezcan invisibles. Imposibilitada de seguir interpretando el rol de esposa y ama de casa perfecta, su única escapatoria es deslizarse elegantemente hacia la locura.

Vicky is fisherman by day and bar owner at night. When she was a little boy her dream was to be a radio soap opera star, nowadays she dreams of falling in love again. How is it possible that a small, barren place in the third world has managed to achieve this special form of freedom and tolerance?

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.

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.

Dos ex compañeros de colegio quiteños se encuentran por casualidad en Ciudad de Panamá en 1985. No se han visto desde su graduación y aunque entonces fueron cercanos, han tomado caminos opuestos: Esteban trabaja en la banca y está en Panamá por negocios, no siempre lícitos. José Luis se presenta como periodista pero en realidad es miembro de la guerrilla Alfaro Vive ¡Carajo!, viviendo en la clandestinidad mientras prepara una nueva acción en el Ecuador: el secuestro de un banquero. Dos personajes sostienen un relato que está profundamente aferrado al pasado del país.

Dos ex compañeros de colegio quiteños se encuentran por casualidad en Ciudad de Panamá en 1985. No se han visto desde su graduación y aunque entonces fueron cercanos, han tomado caminos opuestos: Esteban trabaja en la banca y está en Panamá por negocios, no siempre lícitos. José Luis se presenta como periodista pero en realidad es miembro de la guerrilla Alfaro Vive ¡Carajo!, viviendo en la clandestinidad mientras prepara una nueva acción en el Ecuador: el secuestro de un banquero. Dos personajes sostienen un relato que está profundamente aferrado al pasado del país.

Una bella mujer recurre a la prostitución. Debe entregar sus ingresos al líder de una red de trata de personas, pero la enfermedad y la adicción a las drogas de su hija le impiden entregar su parte habitual. Un evento inesperado le dará la oportunidad de dejar de obedecer y tomar la justicia en sus propias manos.

A documentary about faith through an essay on aging and the fear of death. A story about a group of elders in a ghost town and their lifetime struggle for the respect of their culture and their different ways of understanding faith, where the need of water is the main element that supports their demands and ancient culture is presented as an heritage for new generations to come, that if their home town survives after they are gone. A film that portrays youthfulness as hope, while the main characters reminds us all that nothing is more powerful than our own will and that there is no such thing as a lost cause.

A documentary about faith through an essay on aging and the fear of death. A story about a group of elders in a ghost town and their lifetime struggle for the respect of their culture and their different ways of understanding faith, where the need of water is the main element that supports their demands and ancient culture is presented as an heritage for new generations to come, that if their home town survives after they are gone. A film that portrays youthfulness as hope, while the main characters reminds us all that nothing is more powerful than our own will and that there is no such thing as a lost cause.

Afraid to face upcoming parenthood and the ultimate deadline for his long-awaited novel, a once-promising writer develops a crush on a defiant muse, the 16-year-old girl next door, and escapes into a second adolescence, alienating his partner and those who care about him.

Un adolescente introvertido de la ciudad es enviado al rancho ágil de su padre. Al tratar de descubrir su lugar como el hijo del jefe, se encuentra en un mundo lleno de violencia naturalizada.

The documentary follows an expedition led by the adventurer and photographer Jorge Juan Anhalzer, in the heart of the Llanganati, in search of the enormous Inca treasure hidden in the Ecuadorian mountains.

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.

Sara, una adolescente quiteña de diecisiete años, está a punto de terminar el colegio. Le gusta el rock y los libros, es crítica, alborotada, poco sociable, y disfruta de fumar cigarrillos a escondidas. El primer día de clases llega Andrea, una alumna nueva. Día a día su amistad se fortalece y se despierta una atracción confusa que termina en un beso. Esto genera dudas en Sara pero la fuerza de lo que sienten hace que encuentren una manera particular de vivir su romance; siendo mejores amigas para el mundo y una pareja de adolescentes enamoradas cuando nadie las ve. Las sospechas de su relación se hacen evidentes y al ser revelada Sara y Andrea optan por una estrategia pacífica: van a una playa lejana y dejan su respuesta mediante una sencilla carta.

The documentary chronicles the 139 years of the ex penitentiary García Moreno in Quito, Ecuador, and traces left by the inmates to be transferred to the new prison in the province of Cotopaxi.

Ismael, a sus 22 años, solo piensa en viajar a los Estados Unidos. Después de que sus padres emigran del Ecuador, crece bajo el cuidado de su abuela Mariana. Luego de acordar un precio con el coyote para su viaje, Luz, su mejor amiga, retorna tras ocho años de vivir fuera, para convertirse en la fuerza que llena a Ismael de dudas. Los dos amigos viajan hasta lo más profundo del Azuay para encontrarse con diversos personajes, historias y leyendas que enfrentarán a Ismael con lo que mas teme: su destino

Documentary about Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian-Uruguayan footballer, regarded as the best Ecuadorian footballer of all time.

Elena comes back to Ecuador to help her father overcome his illness. She spends most of her time between drugs and alcohol. While visiting her grandpa in the Andes Elena gets involved in the fight for water access in an indigenous community. She gradually understands that among family secrets, corruption and dark perversions commitment and beauty can emerge.

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.

Raul Lara, an 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.

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.

Between the city and the countryside, the subtle and modern forms of slavery unfold. A girl waits for the pick-up truck that will transport her to the city. Once there, amidst a never-ending row of walls and fences, she peeks into the entrance to a school. Lined up and in uniform, those girls are not the ones Carmen will join.

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.

Every city has its secrets, but it is probably inside houses, behind their silent walls, where they are most intense and human. The Alabado House was built in 1671 as part of Quito’s colonial Old City, surviving centuries of earthquakes, poverty and decay. Over the past five years, dozens of manual laborers have been working to restore it. But its miraculous beauty conceals a long and tragic history. For it was the oppressed indigenous masses who built the Old City, the largest in Latin America.

Jessica 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.

In an unknown first world airport the arrival of an ecuadorian flight is heard. The 'members of the European Union' passby migration, while the 'others', in the other line, wait. In the middle of the claims, a group of ecuadorians is arrested. They are taken to the Room, where they wait to be deported. Seems like everyone hides something, like PROMETEO the youn magician with his hands tied like a delinquent who has a 'magical' trunk as luggage. Time passes, a way of being, Ecuador happens in this waiting room. Seems like there is no possible exit. Meanwhile, a different but well-known way of life takes place. The only thing left as a promising way out is illusion.

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.

With intertwined life stories, this film starts from the questions: Is Ecuadorian society essentially mestizo? What is a mongrel? This documentary aims to bring to the fore issues that have been poorly resolved both in the way in which Ecuador defines itself as a country, and in the subjectivity of its inhabitants.

A murder sets in motion a series of tragedies that find their way to the city morgue's Dr. Arturo Fernandez. Physically and emotionally isolated, Arturo develops an intimate relationship with the personal lives of his cases, forcing him to confront his connection to the living and the dead. This dark, serpentine tale offers a richly textured rendering of Ecuador's capital.

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

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

La película cuenta la historia de Galo Gálvez durante la década de los sesenta en la ciudad de Quito. Un intelectual que lucha entre la marginación del Partido Comunista y la mala convivencia con su compañera de partido Margamaría, quien ha sido su novia desde la niñez. Basada en la novela de Jorge Enrique Adoum (1976), en el film el autor se vuelve un personaje, narrando lo que viven sus amigos y sus propias fantasías, así la película se vuelve entre real e imaginaria.