Amaia Merino Movies

"In the mid 20th century Jon Mirande demonstrated with his prose that the Basque language was capable of producing cultured, universal literature....

A conflicted mestizo man in Quito rejects his roots and tries to pass as part of the white elite, building a fragile identity based on appearances....

"At the end of 1935, Miguel Barga, my great-grandfather, left the family in Tolosa to return to the town of his birth in Burgos. Some time later, the...

A grotesquely disfigured harpooner called Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in the 19th century. One night he...

If the right place and time are chosen, a bag full of Marmitaco can become a terrorist threat.

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...

At last we are starting to hear the voice of women in the cinema. We celebrate it with this documentary on the Basque women moviemakers of yesterday...

40 years after ETA kidnapped her family and the State tortured her father to death, Tamara Muruetagoiena embarks on a tireless quest for truth and...

Is there an audience for Latin American movies? These are some of the questions posed by an Ecuadorian filmmaker whose latest movie was a commercial...

At the end of the 19th century, a boy appears in an Andean village. Nicanor, the village priest, discovers that the child’s blood causes the...

The reality of four rural women in the Metropolitan District of Quito. Despite their pain and difficulties, they have managed to forge a life that in...

Donostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain, November 26th, 1985, at night. Mikel Zabalza, a young bus driver, is arrested along with other...

Lubna (10) has arrived in Paris fleeing from the war. There she can see how whales fly over the Eiffel Tower, while she voices the hope that her...

November 7th, 2001. After a seventy years absence, the Ecuadorian national soccer team is close to qualifying for the first time to a Soccer World...

Asier and I grew up in the Basque Country. But one day he disappeared, later I found out he had joined ETA.

The life and works of Ecuadorian writer Marcelo Chiriboga, a key figure of the Latin American literature and member of the “boom”...