Manolo Sarmiento

Manolo Sarmiento

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Manolo Sarmiento is an Ecuadorian filmmaker, lawyer and journalist. He was a co-founder and since its foundation has been the executive director of the International Documentary Film Festival, Encuentros del Otro Cine - EDOC. He is known for La muerte de Jaime Roldós (2013), Problemas personales (2002) and Aunque tú no lo sepas (2000).

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The Death of Jaime Roldós 2013 (8.6)

A portrait of Jaime Roldos, Ecuador's first democratically elected president, who died with his family when their plane crashed in the mountains.
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Problemas personales 2002

Documentary that focus on the lives of three Ecuadorian migrants. It is a portrait of the suffering, the effort and nostalgia of the Ecuadorians who arrived in Spain during the migratory wave of 1999 and 2000.
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Toroboro: The Name of the Plants 2024

A botanical expedition in Ecuador's Amazon becomes a medium for an indigenous Huaorani community to remember the genocidal colonization it suffered in the 1960s. Meanwhile, a group of ecologists from the capital tries to stop oil exploitation in the last remaining forests where the isolated Huaoranis still live, who to this day refuse to come into contact with civilization.