El Salvador Movies

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...

A documentary about the rival gangs Mara 18 and Mara Salvatrucha, originating in Los Angeles but terrorizing El Salvador. It explores their origins...

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

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...

Eugenia is a Brazilian girl who lives in El Salvador trying to complete her activities in a crazy day.

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...

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

Angela takes a walk in San Salvador, and discovers that there are places where you can't escape walking. On these places you need wings.

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

Documents the destruction caused by American bombings. Compares the cities of Torola and Morazán, and Berlín and Usulután.

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...

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

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...