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Alfredo Mora Manzano
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Territorio · 2016Territorio
★ 7.02016
MovieDocumentary
Alexandra Cuesta cites eternal wanderer Henri Michaux as one of the inspirations for her first feature. It’s curious, then, that the opening sequence of Territorio (the first film Cuesta shot in her native Ecuador) shows us a boat heading for the shore. It is very likely that, to Cuesta, the image of water hides the same connotation than it does to the author of “The Sea of Breasts”: returning home, being sheltered in the mother’s womb. Without detouring from the formal approaches of her previous work, Cuesta traces a journey that crosses the country from north to south, drawing a human cartography in which the aim is to achieve an impossible balance between the foreign traveler’s gaze and the earnest familiarity of those who return home temporarily.
Capitán Escudo · 2018Capitán Escudo
★ 6.02018
MovieAnimationFamily
Origin story of Capitán Escudo, an Ecuadorian superheroe.
Crónicas · 2004Crónicas
★ 6.42004
MovieCrimeDrama
A suspense thriller about a reporter from Miami who travels to Ecuador in pursuit of a serial killer known as the "Monster of Babahoyo."
Hay cosas que no se dicen · 2006Hay cosas que no se dicen
★ 6.02006
MovieRomanceDrama
Beatriz looks for her former partner Mercedes, but she is already with someone else. Beatriz forces her entry into his house and asks her to come back.
Vicenta · 2014Vicenta
2014
MovieAnimation
La bisabuela tiene Alzheimer · 2012La bisabuela tiene Alzheimer
2012
MovieDocumentary
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.
Vida del Ahorcado · 2004Vida del Ahorcado
★ 7.02004
MovieMystery
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.
The Beach of Enchaquirados · 2021The Beach of Enchaquirados
2021
MovieDocumentary
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?