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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Mora Zambrano, Iván (film director)
Mora Zambrano, Iván (film producer)
Mora Zambrano, Iván (screenwriter)
Mora Zambrano, Alfredo (film producer)

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Cinematography, Iván Mora Zambrano; editing, Emmanuel Blanchard, Iván Mora Zambrano.


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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

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