El Salvador Movies

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...

Fleeing the 1980 Civil War in El Salvador, Dora Rodriguez, among a group of twenty-five asylum seekers, were abandoned by their guide and left to...

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.

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

Through dances and games, migrant boys and girls who live in a shelter in Reynosa, on the US-Mexico border, shared their dreams and stories of hope...

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

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

A powerful three-part documentary studying the US involvement in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. The differing factions - Sandinista leaders,...

In El Salvador, Chelino tells about the indigenous massacre of 1932, of which he survived, while he teaches the melodies of traditional Salvadoran...

A journalist documents the experiences of three different people who lived through the tragic Salvadoran civil war of the 1980s, which lasted twelve...

Join affable presenter Nigel Marven as he explores El Salvador, the volatile land of volcanoes with a colorful culture and natural history. Follow...

Years after the Salvadoran military destroyed the village of Cinquera in that country’s civil war, survivors have returned to rebuild their...

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.

Pedro Linger Gasiglia’s twelve-minute documentary "The Massacre at El Mozote: Twenty Years Later," offers first-person accounts of the horrors...

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.

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...

In 1981 Montreal, four Salvadoran siblings, new to Canada, seek distance from the uprisings occurring in their home country by hitting a night club,...