El Salvador Movies

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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...

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...

Two young brothers from El Salvador cross the border with dreams of a better life. Despite their incredible bond, their paths diverge, with one...

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

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

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

A Salvadoran comedy about a group of friends who travel to the United States in search of a better life, but are scammed and forced to undertake a...

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.