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Joe Houlberg

Joe Houlberg

Directing

Known For

The Ivy
6.0

Azucena, a woman in her thirties, approaches Julio, a teenage boy living in a group home, for reasons he doesn’t understand. As they spend time together, an uneasy closeness grows, changing the shape of a bond neither expected to find.

The Ivy

2026
Octopus Skin
N/A

Iris and Ariel are 17-year-old twins, who live with their mother and older sister in an old house in the middle of a rocky island covered with molluscs and birds. The teenagers have grown up isolated from the mainland, in a sibling relationship that surpasses the limits of normal intimacy. The abrupt absence of their mother deeply wounds the three siblings, and Iris, moved by a strong need of separating herself from her brother, decides to go alone to the city for the first time.

Octopus Skin

2026
Thirst
N/A

Sara is 23 years old and is blind. One morning she goes to her country house accompanied by her boyfriend Jose Luis, her cousin Carolina and her boyfriend Pedro. At first the trip seems to be quite fun, but there is a strange energy in this country house as a result of a very dark past. As time goes by, the truth begins to unfold, and the intentions of each of the characters engages them in unexpected carnal desires. All this happens around Sara's blindness.

Thirst

2016
Ozogoche
N/A

Cuviví is the Ecuadorean indigenous name for the upland sandpiper, a wading bird that has special significance for the communities living around the Ozogoche lakes in the middle of the Andes. Each year, these birds migrate south from North America. Around September they pass the Ozogoche lakes, where large numbers then “commit suicide,” plunging from great heights into the ice-cold water. A girl lives near the lake. Her uncle lives in the US, and she might be heading there herself. In the meantime, she awaits the arrival of the cuvivís, few of which have appeared in recent years. The lakes are drying up.

Ozogoche

2023
A
5.5

A world like ours, limited by language.

A

2017
Break a leg
N/A

Inside a theater of a shopping center, several actors rehearse a new play. A recognized actor with delusions of greatness and vanity, faces his decay, making the rehearsals unbearable.

Break a leg

2013
BEUEU
N/A

In a small and strange town where the words don’t exist, Beueu will try to approach the girl Laralara.

BEUEU

2010
Bird
6.8

Gathered in a shelter in an Ecuadorian forest, adolescent victims of sex trafficking take their tentative first steps in their newly recovered lives.

Bird

2023
Tinta Sangre
N/A

A black comedy that portraits a chain of six romances united by chance. In Tinta Sangre the protagonists are the city of Quito, its characters and its inner world. Loves and heartbreak are the thread of this film, and the constant question that all of them ask is why we call it love when we mean addiction.

Tinta Sangre

2013
Deep End
N/A

A novelist's sense of reality and illusion becomes blurred when her family confronts a mysterious drowning in the pool of their home.

Deep End

2025
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N/A

A group of teenage victims of sex trafficking are temporarily living in a shelter hidden in the middle of a forest of frailejones. Between tenderness, anger, and complicity, the girls navigate their pain and seek to rebuild themselves as their time in the house comes to an end.

Amapola