Francisco Aguirre

Esperanza (Espoir), une jeune touriste espagnole en quête d'aventure rencontre Teresa, une étudiante équatorienne au coeur brisé se faisant surnommer Tristeza (Tristesse). Elles partageront toutes les deux un voyage à travers l'Equateur. En auto-stop, au coeur d'une grève nationale, seules ou accompagnées, les deux femmes entreprendront un périple hors du commun. Pleine de péripéties et de rencontres pittoresques, cette traversée leur fera découvrir un pays de contrastes et de surprises. Et au delà de leur attentes, entre les Andes et la mer, c'est un autre monde qu'elles vont découvrir...

At a moment of great lucidity, or delirium maybe, Pancho has a sort of epiphany and affirms that he is being part of a movie.

En el Nombre de la Hija tells the story of a nine-year old girl whose name is in dispute. Manuela has been named alter her socialist-atheist father, but her catholic-conservative grandmother insists she should carry the name the first daughters of the family have carried for generations: Dolores. The story takes place in a Valley in the Ecuadorian Andes, during the summer of 1976. Manuela and her little brother, Camilo, are spending vacations with their cousins and grandparents at the family's farmhouse. Eager to defend her father's ideas, Manuela confronts her cousins and grandparents, but an unexpected encounter leads her to confront herself instead. Hidden in the family's abandoned library, schizophrenic uncle Felipe is devoted to setting words free from the constraints of dogmas. His wisdom sets Manuela free from her own dogmas and forever changes her relationship with words, including her own name.

Vengo Volviendo tells the story of Ismael, who was raised by his grandmother and seeks to leave Ecuador in order to migrate to the United States. Along the way, he encounters a host of interesting people and learns of some interesting tales.

Between Marx and a Naked Woman is the adaptation of a novel written by Ecuadorian Poet, Jorge Enrique Adoum. The scenes of this film insert us into Ecuador in the sixties, when the electoral struggle, convoked by the military government for a new return to democracy, is in full force. Galvez’s left-wing party must elect its candidate, but he is shoved to one side because of the criticism of the party’s political leadership. While his struggle becomes bitter, he must withstand the frustration of not being able to offer full love to Margaramaría, another party member.

Carla arrives in the Galapagos with her father, an expert biologist in turtle conservation. As he talks about raising endangered species, she faces the risks of her own species. Like the iguanas, which to survive mutated into sea creatures, Carla will transform into an Island and learn to cling to the stone, dive and wait.