El Salvador Movies

Compilation of 18 animated short films made by Spanish-speaking artists from around the world for the Filmoteca Maldita Short Film Festival. This...

At the end of the 1970s, German Dominican priest Gerhard Pöter began working with Salvadoran civil war refugees. In the parish of 22 April in...

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

January 22, 1932. An unprecedented peasant uprising erupts in western El Salvador, as a group of Latino and indigenous peasants cut army supply...

In this powerful hybrid documentary, filmmaker Julio López Fernández carefully combines the testimony of victims of sexual violence...

It narrates the development of this guerrilla group, a member of the historic FMLN. At the beginning, Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Monterrosa Barrios...

Paraphrase between the face of man and the face of the earth. It has a fundamental question: Who owns whom? The earth, man or man, earth?

A modern retelling of the infamous War of the Worlds broadcast that changed history. Televised from a closed set in the midst of a global pandemic....

The story focuses on the resilience of a girl in the face of the loss of her grandfather.

The central objective of the documentary is to show the social situation of the peasant communities in the department of Morazán. The...

The latest documentary from Salvadoran director Marlén Viñayo (CACHADA: THE OPPORTUNITY) profiles Geovanny, a ruthless hitman for the...

This documentary narrates the causes and revolutionary process in Central America, primarily in Nicaragua and El Salvador. Produced in 1985, it comes...

Alicia is a painter who gives art therapy workshops to women who have suffered different types of violence. Luz is a young plant lover who was...

In the Name of the People is a 1985 documentary film directed by Frank Christopher about the Salvadoran Civil War. The film follows four filmmakers...

An experimental short film centering on a circus performance in San Salvador.

Eliseo Alberto (aka Lichi) was a scion of one of the most renowned families in Cuban arts and letters. He fled to Mexico City in 1990 where he lived...

A castaway and an eccentric sailor hunt down an ancient creature that may or may not be real.

In the 1970s, the 1500 organized workers of Puerto el Triunfo - mostly women - thanks to their struggles were amongst the more privileged laborers in...