El Salvador Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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

A young woman in El Salvador wishes to hear the village bell before she joins a caravan to the US, but the antique bell hasn't rung in 25 years and...

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

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

Roque Dalton was the Bertolt Brecht of Central America. His political struggle against the Salvadorian dictatorships brought him into jail various...

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...

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...

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

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

In 2008, Teodora Vásquez was convicted of aggravated homicide and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having had a late-term miscarriage.

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

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

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...

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

The story between two women, María, an immigrant Salvadoran living in Spain, where she losses her job, and she has to take care of an elderly...