El Salvador Movies

Cinematic documentary made in 1982, which reveals the life and organization of some camps in the eastern zone of El Salvador. It shows images of...

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

For Lourdes, a writer of the Salvadoran diaspora, returning to her native country means having to face complex emotions around a misogynistic...

A monologue about the meaning of being art, delivered by the last character you’d expect: a pair of pants. A short film by Ponchi Simán.

The award-winning writer Claribel Alegría tells the story of her life, her influence in a new generation of poets and prizes like Premio Reina...

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

Israel Ticas is El Salvador's only criminologist. In one of the world's most dangerous countries, his job is to unearth the hundreds of missing...

In 2024 El Salvador declared a marine sanctuary at the richly biodiverse and beautiful, Maculís Reef. This vibrant ecosystem is vital not only...

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

El Salvador's most dramatic landscapes unfold all around you in this sensory-driven flight experience that captures the nation's soul from above....

The military dictatorships, which held power in El Salvador, instituted a way of governing the country that became unsustainable. Electoral frauds...

This documentary examines the formation of labor unions in El Salvador and the systematic violations of workers’ rights that characterized the...

Documentary about the massacre committed by the Atlacatl Battalion against a thousand civilians in December 1981, Morazan Department.

El Salvador at the height of the civil war in the La Praviana neighborhood, transgender woman Viento seeks revenge for the murder of her partner and...

Diana develops a deep interest in the sound of the sirens that roam her city every night, until she starts to talk to them in her dreams.

War correspondent Don North's film revisits the origins of the war to historically contextualize the country's contemporary challenges to achieving...

Two friends decide to spend the last vacation together, before parting their ways forever in a journey they never will forget.