
Directing
Iván Mora Manzano
Born
1977-05-13 (49)
Place of birth
Guayaquil, Ecuador
Known for
Directing
Credits
15 titles
Iván Mora Manzano is an Ecuadorian director born in Guayaquil in 1977. He has worked as a director, writer, producer, composer and editor. His shorts Silencio Nuclear (2002) and Vida del ahorcado (2004) were presented, respectively, in Venice and Locarno. Sin otoño, sin primavera (2012), his first feature film, was presented in 30 festivals and in theaters in France. Yellow Sunglasses (2020) his second fiction feature premiered in Vancouver Film Festival and Cinequest.
Known for
NRAfter a nuclear catastrophe, a man who did not know how to continue living in silence went out to look for sounds, voices and whispers in the remains of a scorched nature.
Silencio Nuclear
2002
7.3Julia, a thirty-year-old newly separated and in search of a life change, finds two new friends. The three begin to live an intense friendship that turns into a love triangle in which their frustrations and fears of not knowing if they will manage to be who they dreamed to be when they were younger.
Yellow Sunglasses
2021
NRA meeting between the daughter and the grandmother of the director, Iván Mora Manzano, at a time when the memories of one, the girl’s, were taking shape, and the other’s the grandmother’s, were vanishing. This starting point is used as a pretext to talk about other topics such as the importance of family memories and the search for memory.
La bisabuela tiene Alzheimer
2012
7.0Adaptation of Pablo Palacio short story that through a teacher and a group of his students, presents an exercise of dispersion and annihilation converted into an aesthetic object.
Vida del Ahorcado
2004
3.2No Autumn, No Spring depicts modern day Guayaquil City and its invisible generation. Iván Mora Manzano’s punk ballad of rebellion, confrontation and the disenfranchised reveals the tribulations of young men and women who struggle deeply with the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
No Autumn, No Spring
2013
5.0In 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.
Train leaves two towns
2016
Behind the camera
NRAfter a nuclear catastrophe, a man who did not know how to continue living in silence went out to look for sounds, voices and whispers in the remains of a scorched nature.
Silencio Nuclear
2002
NRAfter a nuclear catastrophe, a man who did not know how to continue living in silence went out to look for sounds, voices and whispers in the remains of a scorched nature.
Silencio Nuclear
2002
NRAfter a nuclear catastrophe, a man who did not know how to continue living in silence went out to look for sounds, voices and whispers in the remains of a scorched nature.
Silencio Nuclear
2002
7.3Julia, a thirty-year-old newly separated and in search of a life change, finds two new friends. The three begin to live an intense friendship that turns into a love triangle in which their frustrations and fears of not knowing if they will manage to be who they dreamed to be when they were younger.
Yellow Sunglasses
2021
7.3Julia, a thirty-year-old newly separated and in search of a life change, finds two new friends. The three begin to live an intense friendship that turns into a love triangle in which their frustrations and fears of not knowing if they will manage to be who they dreamed to be when they were younger.
Yellow Sunglasses
2021
NRA meeting between the daughter and the grandmother of the director, Iván Mora Manzano, at a time when the memories of one, the girl’s, were taking shape, and the other’s the grandmother’s, were vanishing. This starting point is used as a pretext to talk about other topics such as the importance of family memories and the search for memory.
La bisabuela tiene Alzheimer
2012
NRA meeting between the daughter and the grandmother of the director, Iván Mora Manzano, at a time when the memories of one, the girl’s, were taking shape, and the other’s the grandmother’s, were vanishing. This starting point is used as a pretext to talk about other topics such as the importance of family memories and the search for memory.
La bisabuela tiene Alzheimer
2012
7.0Adaptation of Pablo Palacio short story that through a teacher and a group of his students, presents an exercise of dispersion and annihilation converted into an aesthetic object.
Vida del Ahorcado
2004
7.0Adaptation of Pablo Palacio short story that through a teacher and a group of his students, presents an exercise of dispersion and annihilation converted into an aesthetic object.
Vida del Ahorcado
2004
3.2No Autumn, No Spring depicts modern day Guayaquil City and its invisible generation. Iván Mora Manzano’s punk ballad of rebellion, confrontation and the disenfranchised reveals the tribulations of young men and women who struggle deeply with the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
No Autumn, No Spring
2013
3.2No Autumn, No Spring depicts modern day Guayaquil City and its invisible generation. Iván Mora Manzano’s punk ballad of rebellion, confrontation and the disenfranchised reveals the tribulations of young men and women who struggle deeply with the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
No Autumn, No Spring
2013
5.0In 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.
Train leaves two towns
2016
5.0In 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.
Train leaves two towns
2016
NRVicky 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?
The Beach of Enchaquirados
2021
NRVicky 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?
The Beach of Enchaquirados
2021
