El Salvador Movies

Loosely inspired by Shakespeare's Othello, La Palabra de Pablo (Pablo's Word) tells the story of a broken contemporary Salvadorian upper middle class...

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...

Olivia is a disturbed woman who shows some signs of amnesia and madness. Accompanied only by Esther, she fantasizes that some day her beloved Julio...

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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...

Presents the game in which El Salvador classified to the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.

Salvadoran documentary about the revolutionary movement, produced by the Centro de Producciones Audiovisuales de Guazapa.

A young woman struggles with getting a good night sleep after being haunted by a ghost of her past.

A production by Radio Venceremos in 1992. The documentary's central objective is to showcase Radio Venceremos' new role after the end of the armed...

A meditation on the intersection of Afro-Caribbean and Indigenous American existence.

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.

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...

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

A fresh, free-wheeling look at the mothers, daughters, teachers, and political prisoners in El Salvador and their struggle to come to terms with...

It documents the civil war in El Salvador, in its first 8 years, as well as the political movements, and the human rights violations that occurred.