Emmanuel Blanchard
Directing
Biography
Emmanuel Blanchard, (Quito, 1984) is an editor, screenwriter and director. He studied Cinema at University Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He directed five student shorts films before working as an editor and post-producer in features such as No Autumn, No Spring (2012) The Great Grandmother has Alzheimer (2012) Alfaro Vive Carajo (2015), Instantánea (2016), My Aunt Toty (2016), Siguiente Round (2018), Yo, Isabel (2019), The Beach of Enchaquirados (2021). He is currently an associate producer of La República Invisible and is directing his first feature-length documentary, Motorcycle Fever.
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39-45, de la France occupée à la France libérée
During the 80´s the left wing movement Alfaro Vive Carajo operated in Ecuador. The traits of this aggrupation were: critique to the orthodox political thinking, frantic growth of the organization, spectacular and clever actions, and the devastating way that the government fought them. A quarter of century later, the survivors tale the story that was hidden and disguised.
Alfaro Vive Carajo
Vicky is fisherman by day and bar owner at night. When she was a little boy her dream was to be a radio soap opera star, nowadays she dreams of falling in love again. How is it possible that a small, barren place in the third world has managed to achieve this special form of freedom and tolerance?
The Beach of Enchaquirados
Antonia is a little photographer. She likes to capture special moments with her camera and she will spend her vacations with her grandparents. Although she go to the beaches with her dog who isn't very happy about it, Mario her grandfather, is a very quiet man, and he will help her study math. This vacations seems to be destined to be a failure, but it all will change when Mario give her a peculiar present, an old Polaroid camera. New friends, adventures, paint wars, ghosts and much more.
Instantánea
A meeting between the daughter and the grandmother of the director, Iván Mora Manzano, at a time when the memories of one, the girl’s, were taking shape, and the other’s the grandmother’s, were vanishing. This starting point is used as a pretext to talk about other topics such as the importance of family memories and the search for memory.
La bisabuela tiene Alzheimer
Josefina and her daughter Magda take refuge in the Andean mountains to find a way to ensure a free future, despite the fact that this decision could land them in prison.
Por Magda
Matilde is a woman who decided to live freely in a conservative and chauvinistic country.
Matilde
Ale and Emma, two twin sisters spend the weekend of the elections together, perfectly knowing that they both think differently about politics.
Diferencias
In the middle of a laundry we discovered an improvised mechanical workshop. An older man talks with his tools. His son invades the space wanting to film it and at the same time making him an unusual proposal: rebuild a motorcycle together. The proposal baffles the father who little by little allows the son to enter into his world. The son begins to delve into questions and questions that go from the mechanical to the personal and open up seemingly hidden conflicts. Is it possible to restore a relationship like you repair a machine?