Iván Mora Manzano

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

Silencio Nuclear poster
NR

After 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

Yellow Sunglasses poster
7.3

Julia, 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

La bisabuela tiene Alzheimer poster
NR

A 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

Vida del Ahorcado poster
7.0

Adaptation 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

No Autumn, No Spring poster
3.2

No 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

Train leaves two towns poster
5.0

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.

Train leaves two towns

2016

Behind the camera

Silencio Nuclear poster
NR

After 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

Silencio Nuclear poster
NR

After 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

Silencio Nuclear poster
NR

After 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

Yellow Sunglasses poster
7.3

Julia, 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

Yellow Sunglasses poster
7.3

Julia, 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

La bisabuela tiene Alzheimer poster
NR

A 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

La bisabuela tiene Alzheimer poster
NR

A 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

Vida del Ahorcado poster
7.0

Adaptation 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

Vida del Ahorcado poster
7.0

Adaptation 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

No Autumn, No Spring poster
3.2

No 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

No Autumn, No Spring poster
3.2

No 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

Train leaves two towns poster
5.0

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.

Train leaves two towns

2016

Train leaves two towns poster
5.0

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.

Train leaves two towns

2016

The Beach of Enchaquirados poster
NR

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?

The Beach of Enchaquirados

2021

The Beach of Enchaquirados poster
NR

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?

The Beach of Enchaquirados

2021