El Salvador Movies

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.

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

Luis has lived peacefully in Santa Esperanza, one of the most dangerous cities in the Federal Republic of Central America, until the day he witnesses...

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....

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 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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Have you ever wondered what the day of your funeral will be like? Juanca is a ghost who visits his own funeral. He listens to conversations from the...

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

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

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

Filmed during the Salvadoran civil war, La luz que te decía documents the struggles of the country’s labor and trade union movement amid...