Cordel (2016)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When a teen from the wrong side of the tracks falls in love with a wealthy girl at the local boarding school, he agrees to help her smuggle drugs from Ecuador for the benefit of her upper crust friends. But when the plan unravels and he becomes the fall guy for their crimes, he is forced to decide how far he will go for the girl he loves.

Atahualpa works on the construction of a road that will cross the Llanganates Mountain Range, where it is said that the treasure of Inca Atahualpa was hidden in 1533. One night, Atahualpa is the guide of an expedition that goes in search of the treasure at the beginning of the 20th century.

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?

A conversation between two Ecuadorian friends in the city of Panama.

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.

Blaquito 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.

Scenes of daily life in the Indian communities of Ecuador.

In Ecuador, in a single day, the train passes from the mountainous Andes to the tropical coast. The roads were built between 1861 and 1908 to connect the country. Until this date, the two regions live as separate countries, although the roads connect them in less than a day. The film is an observational work that talks about space and collective memory.

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.

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.

As Cotopaxi spews ash, issuing an eerie penumbra over Quito, a young woman confronts dormant familial conflicts. Desperate for a place to store her things as volcanic disaster looms, Caridad turns to her long-estranged father Galo for help. Galo abandoned Caridad’s mother long ago and is eager to make amends, but questions concerning the nature of his transgressions linger, straining communication between father and daughter and casting grave doubts over the possibility of reconciliation.

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.

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.

This short film focuses on the evolving country of Ecuador.