Ana Cristina Barragán

Directing

Ana Cristina Barragán

Born 1987-01-01 · Ecuador

Ana Cristina Barragán is an Ecuadorian filmmaker (1987). She made her first short film when she was only 20 years old. She has directed three short films: Despierta/Awake (2008), Domingo violeta/Violet Sunday (2010), Anima/Spirit (2013). Awake was screened at several international film festivals. Domingo violeta premiered at the Locarno festival. Alba (2016), her feature film debut, won the Lions Films Award at Rotterdam, the Jury Mention at San Sebastian, and several other international awards.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Ivy poster
6.0

Azucena, a woman in her thirties, approaches Julio, a teenage boy living in a group home, for reasons he doesn’t understand. As they spend time together, an uneasy closeness grows, changing the shape of a bond neither expected to find.

The Ivy

2026

The Ivy poster
6.0

Azucena, a woman in her thirties, approaches Julio, a teenage boy living in a group home, for reasons he doesn’t understand. As they spend time together, an uneasy closeness grows, changing the shape of a bond neither expected to find.

The Ivy

2026

The Ivy poster
6.0

Azucena, a woman in her thirties, approaches Julio, a teenage boy living in a group home, for reasons he doesn’t understand. As they spend time together, an uneasy closeness grows, changing the shape of a bond neither expected to find.

The Ivy

2026

Bird poster
6.8

Gathered in a shelter in an Ecuadorian forest, adolescent victims of sex trafficking take their tentative first steps in their newly recovered lives.

Bird

2023

Bird poster
6.8

Gathered in a shelter in an Ecuadorian forest, adolescent victims of sex trafficking take their tentative first steps in their newly recovered lives.

Bird

2023

Alba poster
6.7

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.

Alba

2016

Alba poster
6.7

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.

Alba

2016

Thirst poster
NR

Sara is 23 years old and is blind. One morning she goes to her country house accompanied by her boyfriend Jose Luis, her cousin Carolina and her boyfriend Pedro. At first the trip seems to be quite fun, but there is a strange energy in this country house as a result of a very dark past. As time goes by, the truth begins to unfold, and the intentions of each of the characters engages them in unexpected carnal desires. All this happens around Sara's blindness.

Thirst

2016

No artwork available
NR

One early morning, still half-asleep, Mari wanders through her house until she reaches the bathroom. Frightened, she struggles between her fantasy world and the time that confronts her with a new reality.

Wake Up

2011

No artwork available
NR

One early morning, still half-asleep, Mari wanders through her house until she reaches the bathroom. Frightened, she struggles between her fantasy world and the time that confronts her with a new reality.

Wake Up

2011

Anima poster
7.0

A short film by Ana Cristina Barragán.

Anima

2013

Anima poster
7.0

A short film by Ana Cristina Barragán.

Anima

2013

Octopus Skin poster
NR

Iris and Ariel are 17-year-old twins, who live with their mother and older sister in an old house in the middle of a rocky island covered with molluscs and birds. The teenagers have grown up isolated from the mainland, in a sibling relationship that surpasses the limits of normal intimacy. The abrupt absence of their mother deeply wounds the three siblings, and Iris, moved by a strong need of separating herself from her brother, decides to go alone to the city for the first time.

Octopus Skin

2026

Octopus Skin poster
NR

Iris and Ariel are 17-year-old twins, who live with their mother and older sister in an old house in the middle of a rocky island covered with molluscs and birds. The teenagers have grown up isolated from the mainland, in a sibling relationship that surpasses the limits of normal intimacy. The abrupt absence of their mother deeply wounds the three siblings, and Iris, moved by a strong need of separating herself from her brother, decides to go alone to the city for the first time.

Octopus Skin

2026

No artwork available
NR

A group of teenage victims of sex trafficking are temporarily living in a shelter hidden in the middle of a forest of frailejones. Between tenderness, anger, and complicity, the girls navigate their pain and seek to rebuild themselves as their time in the house comes to an end.

Amapola

No artwork available
NR

A group of teenage victims of sex trafficking are temporarily living in a shelter hidden in the middle of a forest of frailejones. Between tenderness, anger, and complicity, the girls navigate their pain and seek to rebuild themselves as their time in the house comes to an end.

Amapola

Violet Sunday poster
NR

Ana must spend the entire Sunday with Violeta, her younger sister, a strange and annoying girl.

Violet Sunday

2011

Violet Sunday poster
NR

Ana must spend the entire Sunday with Violeta, her younger sister, a strange and annoying girl.

Violet Sunday

2011