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- Ecuadorian series of comic sketches about funny situations in Latin America related to teenagers and youngsters.
- Esperanza and Tristeza both have to get to Cuenca. However, by an unlucky turn of events, the bus they are on gets delayed due to a worker strike. Taking their journey into their own hands, they decide to hitchhike to Cuenca. Along the way they meet interesting characters who help them re-evaluate the purpose of their journey.
- When Rafael Correa becomes president of Ecuador in 2007, the West will no longer lend money to the country. Instead, the president turns to China and starts making a flurry of deals and contracts with the Chinese, giving the big Asian country mining, oil and influence over infrastructure in the small South American country, among other things. But not all Ecuadorians are happy. In the lush mountains, villages are setting up guerrilla armies led by eco-activist Paúl Jarrín Mosquera, who, on horseback, wearing a red hat and carrying guns, is trying to sabotage Chinese mining and ensure Ecuador is not re-colonised. And in the capital, Quito, journalist Fernando Villavicencio exposes government corruption to such an extent that he has to flee for his life. 'This Stolen Country of Mine' is an intensely dramatic blockbuster about the consequences of globalisation, and the earthbound nationalism of an outraged population.
- It's the summer of 1976. Manuela is a nine year old girl who's caught in between her communist and atheist father and her grandmother, a catholic and conservative woman. They both dispute the right to define her name and, with it, her role inside the familiar universe. It will be her encounter with with her crazy uncle, hidden in the library of the family's farmhouse (where he has dedicated himself to freeing the words) that will wake up her need to go through mirrors, transforming forever her relationship with language and names, including her own.
- In a countryside house located in the Ecuadorean Andes Mountains lives Christine, a paralytic old woman who has decided to be isolated from the world. In that place, she found refuge in old memories of her first love, Manuel. Years after getting married and widowed from another man, Christine and her daughter, Julia, decide to put together a plan in order to reunite two young people at their countryside house. Christine's drive is for them to fall in love, so she can relive love through their eyes. Consequently, Julia meets Angie, a literature student, and Santiago, an artist dedicated to restoring religious art. Christine is not even close to imagining the amazing journey that awaits her with both of them. As the story goes on, more peculiar characters join them on this unpredictable voyage. For instance, Su, an eccentric girl; Don Curador, an art professor; and, an old man from Luxembourg.
- The entire process of traveling abroad, finding a fixer-upper and then renovating it is followed in this series.
- This short looks at the many ways Ecuador is building for the future, by constructing new roadways, railroads, and factories; and by attracting foreign investment. New agricultural methods are being used that will increase produce exports.
- While the world has moved his writing to their technological devices, Gerardo hand draws and writes entire books where allowed to flow calligraphic art as they did in ancient monks of the abbeys.
- Kallpa, a 12-year-old indigenous boy from the Ecuadorian highlands slowly realizes his desire to become a woman. Kallpa must navigate those desires around seemingly closed and prejudiced minds and abuse to honor self-truth and inner peace.
- Twenty two year old Ismael only thinks about traveling to the US. He grows up with the love and care of his grandmother Mariana, a midwife and ancestral healer, after his parents emigrated from Ecuador. After Ismael agrees on a price with the coyote to be smuggled northward, his best friend Luz returns to Ecuador after eight years of living abroad. Luz's perspective fills Ismael with doubts about his decision to immigrate. The two friends criss cross the Andes by car, along the way they meet various characters and are exposed to stories and legends that will raise troubling questions for Ismael about his destiny.
- Him and Her are neighbours in the same apartment floor. Both influences in each other's lives but they have never met. On any other day, they would never see on another, but today might be different.
- A series of crimes rattle a calm, small town. The trail leads to three gastronomes as the main suspects of different crimes. Annaliese, the new police captain, discovers clues which might lead her to find the perpetrators. As the investigation progresses, they will face the dark truth behind the crimes and strange commonality: an unusual ingredient.
- Two men seeking revenge against the other begin a game of chance, risk and transmigration.
- NEW CHILDREN/NEW YORK looks at the current state of immigration through those affected most: immigrant children. Three youths, coming of age in Bushwick, a vastly immigrant Latino community in Brooklyn are observed. The documentary paints an intimate portrait of the daily struggles and triumphs of these children.
- The Year 2020, amid a global pandemic, a group of 9 adventurous, retired, old Gringos, go up into the mountains of El Cajas National Park (Ecuador) following an enlightened tour guide looking for aliens.
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