The Beach of the Enchaquirados
(La playa de los Enchaquirados)
Iván Mora Zambrano | Documentary
2021 | 86 minutes | Ecuador
Vicky balances her physically tough fishing work at sea with feminine elegance in her private life. Through her, we get to know a trans community that is part of a fishing village on the coast of Ecuador. Over time, do we learn to accept the other or, instead, do differences cloud our ability to see?
Synopsis
Vicky belongs to the local trans community, one where gender and sexuality are not strictly delineated, and she balances her physically tough fishing work at sea with feminine elegance in her private life.
In the daytime, Vicky goes fishing out on the sea, in the evening she runs a little bar on the blustery beach of her small village in Ecuador. The silences, emptiness, and meager catches all feed into the sense of unfulfilled longing that pervades her life, but The Beach of Enchaquirados also glows with an irresistible and liberating warmth.
Social life in this fishing village drifts along in a delightfully serene manner with the camera watching on, in beautifully stylized shots and at an easy editing pace. Few words are necessary to capture the natural course of life here.
Vicky's two worlds may seem diametrically opposed, but filmmaker Iván Mora Manzano captures them with the same affection—from giggly flirting to candid conversations about an incomplete life, and from the deserted beaches to the lively carnival season.
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Main credits
Mora Zambrano, Iván (film director)
Mora Zambrano, Iván (film producer)
Mora Zambrano, Iván (screenwriter)
Mora Zambrano, Alfredo (film producer)
Other credits
Cinematography, Iván Mora Zambrano; editing, Emmanuel Blanchard, Iván Mora Zambrano.
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Cataloging
Pragda subjects
Anthropology
Body Image
Culture + Identity
Gender + Sexuality Studies
Indigenous Peoples
Labor Studies
Latin American Studies
Sociology
South America
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Festivals
International Documentary Film Amsterdam IDFA; Guadalajara International Film Festival - Special Jury Mention; Lima Film Festival - Best LGBT Film, Gio Award for Best Documentary Performance; Majordocs - Special Jury Mention; Doclisboa - Healthy Workplaces Award; Phoenix Film Festival; Locarno Film Festival
DIRECTOR: Iván Mora Zambrano
NATIONALITY: Ecuador
YEAR: 2021
GENRE: Documentary
LANGUAGE: Spanish
COLOR / B&W: Color
GRADE LEVEL: Adult, College, High School
SUBTITLE/CC: AVAILABLE
AUDIO DESCRIPTION: NOT AVAILABLE
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