El Salvador Movies

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

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

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

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

Alicia is a painter who gives art therapy workshops to women who have suffered different types of violence. Luz is a young plant lover who was...

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

In the capital of El Salvador, the drivers of a bus, a taxi, a minibus and a private car confront the ravages of 12 years of civil war that continue...

La Zona Intertidal was made at a time when terrorist acts from both state and paramilitary were the order of the day in El Salvador and shaped the...

Through fleeting moments of song, discovery, and dance, Pueblo Chúcaro portrays the living spirit of Ataco, the melody of a street singer, the...

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

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...

Paraphrase between the face of man and the face of the earth. It has a fundamental question: Who owns whom? The earth, man or man, earth?

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

A castaway and an eccentric sailor hunt down an ancient creature that may or may not be real.

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...

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.

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.

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