El Salvador Movies

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

Alejandro Cotto, a pioneer of Salvadoran cinema, celebrates his 63rd birthday in Suchitoto while the youth celebrate the end of the civil war. He...

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

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

After a tragic death, a family of three is forced to move to a desolated part of the country only to be haunted by mythical creatures.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Produced by the Radio Venceremos System, chronicles the first decade of the guerrilla broadcaster that became a crucial communication tool for the...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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