La otra luz

The indigenous community of Puesetus celebrates the reunion of the town with family members who migrated to Quito.

Through multiple artistic phases of the tireless creative, Camilo Egas, the documentary pays tribute to the painter and his time.

Santa Rosa, a small town in Cuenca, is inhabited almost exclusively by women and children. The men have emigrated to the United States. The nostalgia for the absent is permanent. However, under the leadership of the women, the community group survives by asserting its social sense, despite the poverty.

Shot in New York, home at the time for over 400.000 ecuadorians, most of rural origin. Amidst a forced exodus that for the majority offered no return, the notion of "being ecuadorian" is reproduced as an attempt to avoid getting lost in anonymity.

Farmers of the Sierra region remain as settlers in the East, a new home, where they face the need to farm while preserving the delicate ecological system of the Amazon rainforest.

Other than the fragmentation of familial and communal ties, rural-to-urban migration leads into the assimilation of the urban lifestyle. However, for those with strong indigenous cultural traditions, this only happens in the surface.