El Salvador Movies

It shows the participation of Salvadoran women in the revolutionary struggle, through different functions they perform, from armed combatants to...

Produced by the Radio Venceremos System, chronicles the first decade of the guerrilla broadcaster that became a crucial communication tool for the...

Forbidden Stories of Pulgarcito is a film produced in 1980 by the FAPU, a mass organization of the National Resistance, one of the five organizations...

José Antonio Sistiaga is one of the greats in Basque contemporary art. Through lively exchanges begun in 1993 with his Salvadoran friend...

A poet and a spirit have an ongoing deal: Haiku for life.

Set in the coffee fields of Latin America, the movie unfolds through the eyes of Josefina Moreno, an 18 year-old coffee picker, with a rare and...

Iván travels to a deserted island to reunite with his boyfriend, but tragedy strikes. In search of answers, he takes part in a ritual with a...

Breaking down the colonial tradition of piñatas, this personal film probes into a loss of faith while retracing a family history.

In an attempt to evoke the past, Guillermo innocently gets involved in drug dealing to get his hands on Angel Dust. Caught in family conflicts and...

The title refers to the legacy of Archbishop Oscar Romero who was assassinated in his cathedral in March 1980.

Huachindango is the small capital of a small Central American country. In this city, women must enter rooms managed by “The System” at...

Social hotspots can be found everywhere. Recognizing this, rapper Carlos Zamora started his project Rapflektion in Braunschweig and the surrounding...

A narcissistic comedian wakes up in the opposite sex body following an automobile accident.

This film aims to describe the agony of a biology teacher who finds himself in a place of limits, at the edge of life and death. Set in the years...

An experimental short film about a day in the life of a barefoot boy who sells newspapers in San Salvador.

After going throughout a depressing job interview, Manuel must face his mother and his friends, who offer different perceptions about the current...

After nearly thirty years apart, three friends reunite at a funeral to reflect on life's trivialities and the inevitability of death.

An insomniac man and his wife try to find the meaning of a strange nightmare that has interrupted the peace of their rest.

During the early 1970s, hundreds of peasants in a remote region of El Salvador began to emulate the early Christians, working the land together and...