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Amaia Merino

Amaia Merino

Amaia Merino (San Sebastián, 1970) is an actress, director, writer and editor. She lives in Ecuador, where she works as an editor and screenwriter of non-fiction films. During the last fifteen years he has made feature films such as Blak Mama, Más allá del Mall, Resonancia, En espera, El pan nuestro, 1809-1810 Mientras llega el día y Asier ETA biok (Asier y yo).

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Movies Made By Amaia Merino (23)

Chuzalongo (2024)

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 crops to bear fruit magically, but for the boy to live, he must be fed human blood. ...

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Let It Be Known (2024)

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 justice. Tamara recounts her family tragedy, face to face: the revolutionary tax, the kidnapping by an ETA co ...

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Europa (2024)

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 parents can get there too. ...

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Mirande (2023)

"In the mid 20th century Jon Mirande demonstrated with his prose that the Basque language was capable of producing cultured, universal literature. Everybody recognises its importance. But he is still a taboo subject. De Mirande is said to have been a racis ...

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A Deep Breath, Women Filmmakers (2023)

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 and today, giving a global overview of the subject. Three female divers guide us through the topic of their ...

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The Border (2022)

Joxean is not aware of the border in her country. He moves every week to sell pigs. For Kamaru, the border means every obstacle and danger. They both have to fight the same enemy. ...

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Fantasía (2021)

Siblings Amaia and Aitor are about to turn fifty. They have no children. From a very young age they have lived apart from their parents, Kontxi and Iñaki, now retired. One summer they all meet up on the cruise ship 'Fantasía'. On the high seas time seems ...

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Where Is Mikel? (2021)

Donostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain, November 26th, 1985, at night. Mikel Zabalza, a young bus driver, is arrested along with other people by the Guardia Civil as part of an operation against the ruthless terrorist gang ETA. When the other detai ...

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The Longest Night (2019)

A beautiful woman turns to prostitution. She must surrender her income to the leader of a human trafficking ring, but her daughter's illness and a drug addiction prevent her from delivering her usual share. An unexpected event will give her the opportunit ...

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Tierra de mujeres (2018)

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 maturity unfolds all the beauty of wisdom. ...

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Chuquiragua (2016)

Agustín escaped to the moor to finish his thesis, he spends his days writing, feeding himself and giving small walks through a place covered by scrubland, steep cliffs and abyss that remain hidden behind an almost permanent fog. Everything changes when Lu ...

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Take Me for a Ride (2016)

Starting her senior year in high school, Sara doesn't have many friends and is caught between an overbearing mother, and a more understanding father. With uneasiness at school and tension in the household, Sara escapes to smoke in a little alley alone – ...

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El Panóptico Ciego (2015)

The documentary chronicles the 139 years of the ex penitentiary García Moreno in Quito, Ecuador, and traces left by the inmates to be transferred to the new prison in the province of Cotopaxi. ...

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Vengo Volviendo (2015)

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. ...

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Asier ETA biok (2014)

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

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Resonancia (2013)

Raul Lara, an Ecuadorian luthier, works around seven months in the construction of each instrument. Sometimes staying for four consecutive months inside his workshop, place in which time and space are surreal. The guitar becomes alive and receives its soul ...

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On Hold (2011)

Between the city and the countryside, the subtle and modern forms of slavery unfold. A girl waits for the pick-up truck that will transport her to the city. Once there, amidst a never-ending row of walls and fences, she peeks into the entrance to a school. ...

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Beyond the mall (2010)

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 flop. He embarks on a query to find answers to his questions and relief for his despair. His research leads ...

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The silent walls (2010)

Every city has its secrets, but it is probably inside houses, behind their silent walls, where they are most intense and human. The Alabado House was built in 1671 as part of Quito's colonial Old City, surviving centuries of earthquakes, poverty and decay. ...

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Mete gol, gana (2008)

Jonathan and Romario are two Afro-Ecuadorian children from the Chota Valley, one of the poorest regions of Ecuador. Their fate can be one of two: to become world-class footballers like Ulises de la Cruz, Chucho Benitez and Antonio Valencia, or farmers like ...

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Ecuador vs. el resto del mundo (2006)

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 Cup. This documentary follows the events that took place during that historic date, when a whole country live ...

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1809-1810: mientras llega el día (2004)

1809-1810: mientras llega el día is a 2004 Ecuadorian historical-dramatic film, directed by Camilo Luzuriaga and starring Marilú Vaca, Aristides Vargas and Gonzalo Gonzalo. The plot is based on the book by Juan Valdano, and revolves around the events tha ...

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Between Marx and a Naked Woman (1996)

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 ...

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Movies Starring Amaia Merino (6)

A Secret in the Box (2017)

The life and works of Ecuadorian writer Marcelo Chiriboga, a key figure of the Latin American literature and member of the "boom" generation. Through interviews, visits to different cities, archival footage and his most important book, a puzzle is woven th ...

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Alba (2016)

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 ...

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Blak Mama (2009)

Three paper recyclers depart on a journey to the Door of Forgiveness to pay tribute to Virgin Wolf, a mysterious Andean deity. ...

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Esas no son penas (2005)

One day five women from Quito, friends in their teens, decide to get back together after fourteen years. Helena is waiting for her second child, Marina lives the ups and downs of infidelity, Diana, an early widow, shares her loneliness with her 15 year old ...

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Iguana (1988)

A grotesquely disfigured harpooner called Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in the 19th century. One night he escapes and takes up residence on a remote island. He makes himself ruler of the island and declares war on ma ...

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Viento de cólera (1988)

Two soldiers accompanied by two women enter the Baztán valley on horseback. They are deserters from the army of the Indies who are fleeing to Italy. They arrive to claim the inheritance of one of them, León de Balanza, Captain in Peru and soldier without ...

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