El Salvador Movies

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

A free adaptation of the short story “Why Saint Anthony Lost His Virtue” by the Salvadoran writer Salvador Salazar Arrué...

Between 1980 and 1992, El Salvador was at war. Two Venezuelans joined the guerrilla movement in that Central American country and participated in...

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

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

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

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

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?

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

Filmed by Guillermo Escalón in July 1981, it shows daily life in territories under guerrilla control in the Francisco Sánchez...

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...

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...

In the early 1980s, at the beginning of what would become a 12-year-long civil war, El Salvador's talented football team was one national institution...

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...

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

Torn between love and faith, a monk goes on a pilgrimage looking for a sign.

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

This documentary juxtaposes scenes of El Salvador's opposition factions, including U.S. government advisors and government troops, and guerrillas and...