Amaia Merino

Alba, 11 years old, passes her days in silence. She loves little animals. She has learned to cope with her mother's illness, helping her to use the bathroom. Alba plays silently so that her mother can rest during the day. One night Alba's mother gets worse, and has to be taken to the hospital. With no one else to take care of her, Alba is sent to live with her father, who she hasn't seen since she was three years old. Living with her father is almost unbearable. Embarrassment, her first kiss, visits to mother in the hospital, Edgar's tender efforts to get close to her, and bullying at school; these are some of the experiences that pave Alba's journey to puberty and to self-acceptance.

Three paper recyclers depart on a journey to the Door of Forgiveness to pay tribute to Virgin Wolf, a mysterious Andean deity.

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.

Two soldiers accompanied by two women enter the Baztán valley on horseback. They are deserters from the army of the Indies who are fleeing to Italy. They arrive to claim the inheritance of one of them, León de Balanza, Captain in Peru and soldier without fortune. They are looking for old Balanzategui who works the land of his ancestors. The old man's refusal to distribute the farmland's land causes a serious conflict.

A conflicted mestizo man in Quito rejects his roots and tries to pass as part of the white elite, building a fragile identity based on appearances. As his ambitions clash with reality, his relationships and sense of self begin to unravel.

A grotesquely disfigured harpooner called Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in the 19th century. One night he escapes and takes up residence on a remote island. He makes himself ruler of the island and declares war on mankind. Anyone unfortunate enough to wind up on the island with Iguana is subjected to his cruel tyranny.

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.

Donostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain, November 26th, 1985, at night. Mikel Zabalza, a young bus driver, is arrested along with other people by the Guardia Civil as part of an operation against the ruthless terrorist gang ETA. When the other detainees are released, they denounce that they have been brutally tortured in the Intxaurrondo facilities. Besides, Mikel is not among them: Mikel has disappeared.

Donostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain, November 26th, 1985, at night. Mikel Zabalza, a young bus driver, is arrested along with other people by the Guardia Civil as part of an operation against the ruthless terrorist gang ETA. When the other detainees are released, they denounce that they have been brutally tortured in the Intxaurrondo facilities. Besides, Mikel is not among them: Mikel has disappeared.

Siblings Amaia and Aitor are about to turn fifty. They have no children. From a very young age they have lived apart from their parents, Kontxi and Iñaki, now retired. One summer they all meet up on the cruise ship 'Fantasía'. On the high seas time seems to have stopped, but beyond the horizon reality continues to forge its way ahead tirelessly.

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.

Asier and I grew up in the Basque Country. But one day he disappeared, later I found out he had joined ETA.

Asier and I grew up in the Basque Country. But one day he disappeared, later I found out he had joined ETA.

Asier and I grew up in the Basque Country. But one day he disappeared, later I found out he had joined ETA.

The reality of four rural women in the Metropolitan District of Quito. Despite their pain and difficulties, they have managed to forge a life that in maturity unfolds all the beauty of wisdom.

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40 years after ETA kidnapped her family and the State tortured her father to death, Tamara Muruetagoiena embarks on a tireless quest for truth and justice. Tamara recounts her family tragedy, face to face: the revolutionary tax, the kidnapping by an ETA commando unit for 17 days, the subsequent family breakdown, persecution by the State machinery, political pressure, the trial, her parents' arrest, the torture, murder… But also her path to the truth, recognition, and the use of dialogue as the key tool in resolving conflict.

40 years after ETA kidnapped her family and the State tortured her father to death, Tamara Muruetagoiena embarks on a tireless quest for truth and justice. Tamara recounts her family tragedy, face to face: the revolutionary tax, the kidnapping by an ETA commando unit for 17 days, the subsequent family breakdown, persecution by the State machinery, political pressure, the trial, her parents' arrest, the torture, murder… But also her path to the truth, recognition, and the use of dialogue as the key tool in resolving conflict.

40 years after ETA kidnapped her family and the State tortured her father to death, Tamara Muruetagoiena embarks on a tireless quest for truth and justice. Tamara recounts her family tragedy, face to face: the revolutionary tax, the kidnapping by an ETA commando unit for 17 days, the subsequent family breakdown, persecution by the State machinery, political pressure, the trial, her parents' arrest, the torture, murder… But also her path to the truth, recognition, and the use of dialogue as the key tool in resolving conflict.

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.

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.