Víctor Arregui

Directing

Víctor Arregui

Born 1963-06-23 · Guaranda, Ecuador

Víctor Manuel Arregui is an Ecuadorian filmmaker. His first feature film "Fuera de juego" (2002), won the Film in Progress Award at the 50th San Sebastián Film Festival, Spain.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Por derecho poster
NR

A modest law firm receives a somewhat ambiguous assignment regarding some properties from a mysterious foreigner, apparently of American origin. One of the partners is struck by the opaque nature of the case and decides to take some time to investigate. He eventually discovers that the foreigner was English and that it is a scheme to seize a house belonging to an Argentine family.

Por derecho

2014

Por derecho poster
NR

A modest law firm receives a somewhat ambiguous assignment regarding some properties from a mysterious foreigner, apparently of American origin. One of the partners is struck by the opaque nature of the case and decides to take some time to investigate. He eventually discovers that the foreigner was English and that it is a scheme to seize a house belonging to an Argentine family.

Por derecho

2014

The Facilitator poster
3.0

Elena comes back to Ecuador to help her father overcome his illness. She spends most of her time between drugs and alcohol. While visiting her grandpa in the Andes Elena gets involved in the fight for water access in an indigenous community. She gradually understands that among family secrets, corruption and dark perversions commitment and beauty can emerge.

The Facilitator

2013

The Facilitator poster
3.0

Elena comes back to Ecuador to help her father overcome his illness. She spends most of her time between drugs and alcohol. While visiting her grandpa in the Andes Elena gets involved in the fight for water access in an indigenous community. She gradually understands that among family secrets, corruption and dark perversions commitment and beauty can emerge.

The Facilitator

2013

El día que me callé poster
4.0

Victor was victim of a violent attack during the government of León Febres Cordero in 1987. More than 30 years later, he decides to free himself from the weight of the secrets and ghosts that has carried for many years and speak out.

El día que me callé

2022

El día que me callé poster
4.0

Victor was victim of a violent attack during the government of León Febres Cordero in 1987. More than 30 years later, he decides to free himself from the weight of the secrets and ghosts that has carried for many years and speak out.

El día que me callé

2022

El día que me callé poster
4.0

Victor was victim of a violent attack during the government of León Febres Cordero in 1987. More than 30 years later, he decides to free himself from the weight of the secrets and ghosts that has carried for many years and speak out.

El día que me callé

2022

My Time Will Come poster
5.8

A murder sets in motion a series of tragedies that find their way to the city morgue's Dr. Arturo Fernandez. Physically and emotionally isolated, Arturo develops an intimate relationship with the personal lives of his cases, forcing him to confront his connection to the living and the dead. This dark, serpentine tale offers a richly textured rendering of Ecuador's capital.

My Time Will Come

2006

Break a leg poster
NR

Inside a theater of a shopping center, several actors rehearse a new play. A recognized actor with delusions of greatness and vanity, faces his decay, making the rehearsals unbearable.

Break a leg

2013

Break a leg poster
NR

Inside a theater of a shopping center, several actors rehearse a new play. A recognized actor with delusions of greatness and vanity, faces his decay, making the rehearsals unbearable.

Break a leg

2013

Fuera de juego poster
9.0

Juan dreams to escape from his country and its problems.

Fuera de juego

2002

Fuera de juego poster
9.0

Juan dreams to escape from his country and its problems.

Fuera de juego

2002

No artwork available
NR

On January 3, 2001 in Lorca there was a traffic accident that caused 12 deaths who were Ecuadorians, worked in agricultural fields and were in an irregular situation in Spain. This documentary reflects the harsh reality experienced by dozens of illegal Ecuadorians offering much cheaper labor in Spain.

Ningún ser humano es ilegal

2001