Ecuador (2012)
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 1H 12M
Director : Jacques Sarasin
Sinopse
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.
Após levar um pé na bunda, uma mulher (Amy Schumer) decide se recuperar, e de quebra reanimar a vida de sua mãe (Goldie Hawn), fazendo um passeio de férias em família pela América do Sul. No entanto, ao invés de relaxamento e diversão, elas se deparam com situações inesperadas que transformam a viagem em uma verdadeira catástrofe.
Jack Begosian (Andy Garcia) é um espião da CIA aposentado, que hoje trabalha como apresentador de um programa de rádio. Um dia, Morgan Swinton (Deborah Kara Unger) decide contratá-lo para investigar a implicação do governo dos Estados Unidos no massacre de um vilarejo na América do Sul. Jack vai ao local para descobrir a verdade, mas ele acaba reacendendo uma verdadeira batalha política.
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.
Óculos de Sol Amarelos, conta a história de Julia, que após uma separação, muda-se para um frio apartamento cercado de caixas por desempacotar. Lá, ela enfrenta os pequenos conflitos diários da solidão: passar o dia de pijama, aceitar empregos medíocres e comer demasiado, enquanto tenta, sem muita coragem, se candidatar a uma bolsa e realizar seu sonho de ser escritora.
Acusada de um crime que não cometeu. Aprisionada por um sistema corrupto. A sorte está contra Sandra Chase quando ela se vê atrás das grades no Equador. Enquanto sua filha tenta conseguir apoio político em Washington, Sandra faz escolhas desesperadas para sobreviver a essa grande provação.
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.
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.
Para além dos socos, o boxe pinta um complexo retrato da vida —seus obstáculos, a luta, a disciplina e o compromisso. O filme examina os aspectos mais humanos do esporte, explorando a vida de quatro personagens —um para cada canto do ringue: os veteranos boxeadores equatorianos Eugenio Espinoza e Ramiro “Clay” Bolaños, o jovem aspirante César e o boxista amador Carlos.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A dog story about a stray traveling in the dense and swallowing Amazon jungle, the dusty streets of Quito, Ecuador, and a Switzerland.
Arthur joined a race, and outpaced death, to find a new life with the adopted adventure seekers.
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.
Portrays the misunderstandings, losses and shipwrecks of the past of an unusual character who walks the streets of San Telmo forced to build a new identity.
A tragedy based on first love.
A conversation between two Ecuadorian friends in the city of Panama.