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During the 1980s civil war in El Salvador, a rebel group of leftist guerrillas fight to expose its government's death squads via an underground radio network and hope to end their government's reign of terror with the help of an American journalist.
A narcissistic comedian wakes up in the opposite sex body following an automobile accident.
A poet and a spirit have an ongoing deal: Haiku for life.
A catholic priest in Monte Bello, El Salvador has created a clandestine operating room inside the church to extract the human organs of kidnapped people and sell them on the black market.
A hangover is the least of Giovanni's problems when his wild bachelor party and a stripper give him the biggest headache of his life.
A castaway and an eccentric sailor hunt down an ancient creature that may or may not be real.
A documentary about the rival gangs Mara 18 and Mara Salvatrucha, originating in Los Angeles but terrorizing El Salvador. It explores their origins as possible founding myths of organized crime in a globalized world.
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 amazing sense of smell.
Documentary about the massacre committed by the Atlacatl Battalion against a thousand civilians in December 1981, Morazan Department.
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.
This film aims to describe the agony of a biology teacher who finds himself in a place of limits, at the edge of life and death. Set in the years just prior to El Salvador's civil war, years in which teachers were targeted and brutalized.
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 lady with Alzheimer’s condition. Both women are fighting with oblivion. Esther doesn’t want to forget the most important things in her life, while María wants to forget her lost love so she can move on with her life.
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 to torment the country.
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 dangerous journey by land. Despite the challenges, the film weaves humor with emotion to explore identity, friendship, and the true meaning of Christmas through its traditions and the attachment to their homeland.
Loosely inspired by Shakespeare's Othello, La Palabra de Pablo (Pablo's Word) tells the story of a broken contemporary Salvadorian upper middle class family - struggling with jealousy and revenge.
The story focuses on the resilience of a girl in the face of the loss of her grandfather.
The military dictatorships, which held power in El Salvador, instituted a way of governing the country that became unsustainable. Electoral frauds were evident, and despite all this, the military continued to perpetuate themselves in power. Little by little, the gap between social classes began to widen, aggravating differences, while inequality grew disproportionally. Due to the lack of opportunity to improve the quality of life of Salvadorans via a political path, guerrilla organizations as well as an armed conflict emerged.
Forbidden Stories of Pulgarcito is a film produced in 1980 by the FAPU, a mass organization of the National Resistance, one of the five organizations of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN. The film was filmed in El Salvador in late 1979 and early 1980 and is a testimony of the daily struggle of the people against the military regime. The team of filmmakers coordinated by Paul Leduc collects the testimonies of the main actors in the conflict that led to a civil war that lasted 12 years, causing 75,000 dead and a million displaced, in a country of 5 million inhabitants. During those years, the United States sent a million dollars a day in aid to the Salvadoran army.
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?
Huachindango is the small capital of a small Central American country. In this city, women must enter rooms managed by “The System” at different times in their lives, where there are different types of sexual assault. No woman in Huachindango escapes from entering, at one or more moments in her life, to these rooms. There is one room that is the most feared of all: Cock’s Quickie.
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 upon which both the left and the right could agree. When the team pulled off a stunning 1-0 upset against Mexico and qualified to compete in the 1982 World Cup, it was a high point for the tiny country's national pride. Unfortunately, the team's Cinderella story devolved into a nightmarish farce.
Eugenia is a Brazilian girl who lives in El Salvador trying to complete her activities in a crazy day.
January 22, 1932. An unprecedented peasant uprising erupts in western El Salvador, as a group of Latino and indigenous peasants cut army supply lines, attack a military garrison, and take control over several towns. Retribution is swift. After three days, the army and militias move in and, in some villages, slaughter all males over age 12. Elsewhere, they summarily execute anyone suspected of having a link to the Communists. Over the next few weeks, 10,000 people are massacred.
A cleaning woman steals a Salvadoran Civil War map and hunts for a treasure in the hopes of reuniting with her son.
Filmed by Guillermo Escalón in July 1981, it shows daily life in territories under guerrilla control in the Francisco Sánchez Northeastern Front, Department of Morazán,
In 2008, Teodora Vásquez was convicted of aggravated homicide and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having had a late-term miscarriage.
Luis has lived peacefully in Santa Esperanza, one of the most dangerous cities in the Federal Republic of Central America, until the day he witnesses a traumatic event that awakens in him an ability called bilocation, which will take him on a journey between good and evil, using his powers as a blessing or a curse.
Alejandro Cotto, a pioneer of Salvadoran cinema, celebrates his 63rd birthday in Suchitoto while the youth celebrate the end of the civil war. He speaks with Escalón about the struggles faced by Third World filmmakers, the horrors of war, the fate of his village, and the pursuit of his dreams.
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 building communities based on solidarity. By the late 1970s, thousands of peasants in northern Morazan organized to resist National Guard repression which often involved torture and executions. In 1980s, the military engaged in scorched earth operations against their villages, inaugurating a 12-year civil war. The Word in the Woods tells their stories. The film's protagonists must reflect upon their struggles in the light of current reality.
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.
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.
The life of a simple piñata salesman named Don Cleo is turned upside down when he falls victim to an extortionist he can’t possibly afford to pay. The harder he tries to raise the funds, the deeper into trouble he gets. If Don Cleo hopes to survive, he’ll have to face his fears and stand up to his tormentors.
Compilation of 18 animated short films made by Spanish-speaking artists from around the world for the Filmoteca Maldita Short Film Festival. This collection contains very diverse works, both in technical and thematic aspects, although they all share a genuine spirit of dedication and creativity.
A boy living in an abandoned cinema meets a young girl. As their friendship develops, the boy entertains the other cinema residents with stories and shadow puppets.
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 sexually assaulted on her way home from the nursery that employs her. Dora is a seamstress searching for her missing daughter while trying to keep her relationship with her granddaughter and husband afloat. Art helps these women face the trauma and pain caused by violence as they come together in their determination to bring a rapist to justice.
Filmed during the Salvadoran civil war, La luz que te decía documents the struggles of the country’s labor and trade union movement amid escalating political violence. Through strike footage, congress meetings, marches, and first-person testimonies, the film portrays a society marked by state repression, workers’ mobilization, and efforts to build national and international solidarity. The documentary pays particular attention to the strike of the National Water Authority workers (ANDA), featuring members of the SETA union who describe the causes of the protest, the repression they faced, and the survival strategies adopted during the conflict. Testimonies from other unions, grassroots organizations, and international labor groups broaden the film’s perspective beyond a single labor dispute.
Between 1980 and 1992, El Salvador was at war. Two Venezuelans joined the guerrilla movement in that Central American country and participated in Radio Venceremos, a subversive radio station that broadcast uninterruptedly during the years of struggle between the government and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front.
Produced by the Radio Venceremos System, chronicles the first decade of the guerrilla broadcaster that became a crucial communication tool for the FMLN during El Salvador’s civil war. Through archival footage, radio transmissions, testimonies, and scenes of daily life in liberated zones, the film traces the station’s military, political, and cultural role, from reporting on combat operations and peasant struggles to fostering literacy, music, and international solidarity. The documentary portrays Radio Venceremos not only as a strategic instrument of war, but as a symbol of resistance, collective organization, and revolutionary memory.
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 who secretly entered El Salvador, marched with guerrillas across the country, and followed them into combat against government forces in San Salvador. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
For Lourdes, a writer of the Salvadoran diaspora, returning to her native country means having to face complex emotions around a misogynistic environment that triggers her anxiety. Once there, she is forced to confront a lingering marriage crisis and reevaluate the meaning of freedom. “October Winds” is a modern fable about returning home and feeling out of place.
A cleaning woman steals a Salvadoran Civil War map and hunts for a treasure in the hopes of reuniting with her son.
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 people murdered and buried by the rival gangs MS-13 and 18 Street as their street war rages. Without him, the murdered would go uncounted. The gangs may have declared a truce in 2012, but as we discover on the job with Israel, the murder rate has increased and El Salvador's missing remain without justice.
For Lourdes, a writer of the Salvadoran diaspora, returning to her native country means having to face complex emotions around a misogynistic environment that triggers her anxiety. Once there, she is forced to confront a lingering marriage crisis and reevaluate the meaning of freedom. “October Winds” is a modern fable about returning home and feeling out of place.
Roque Dalton was the Bertolt Brecht of Central America. His political struggle against the Salvadorian dictatorships brought him into jail various times. He became throughout Latin America a symbol for the fight against social injustice and helped establish one of his country's first guerrilla organizations.
José Antonio Sistiaga is one of the greats in Basque contemporary art. Through lively exchanges begun in 1993 with his Salvadoran friend Manuel Sorto, we plunge into Sistiaga's intellectual intimacy and travel through a Basque history, following the steps of this experimental filmmaker and artist. This nearly two-decades-old project was taken up again in 2011, with the filming of the installation of Sistiaga's retrospective exhibition in San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain.
Solentime (2020), directed by Carlos Henríquez Consalvi and Camilo Henríquez, revisits the memory of poet-priest Ernesto Cardenal and the Christian community he founded in the Solentiname archipelago, where art, faith, and revolutionary consciousness converged. The film reconstructs a failed 1973 documentary project, when a young Consalvi traveled from Venezuela to film Cardenal with a 16mm Bolex, only to discover the footage was ruined. Nearly five decades later, during the COVID-19 lockdown and after Cardenal’s death, father and son assemble photographs, archival images, and sound to evoke that encounter and the fragile persistence of memory, turning loss, decay, and time into the material of the film itself.
In this powerful hybrid documentary, filmmaker Julio López Fernández carefully combines the testimony of victims of sexual violence during the Salvadoran Civil War with reenactments, performance art and historical information about the color indigo.
A free adaptation of the short story “Why Saint Anthony Lost His Virtue” by the Salvadoran writer Salvador Salazar Arrué (Salarrué).
This documentary juxtaposes scenes of El Salvador's opposition factions, including U.S. government advisors and government troops, and guerrillas and their sympathizers.
A modern retelling of the infamous War of the Worlds broadcast that changed history. Televised from a closed set in the midst of a global pandemic. Brought to life by a cast of 13 actors, performing more than 27 different characters and countless practical sound effects. An original adaptation by Migue Siman.
It narrates the development of this guerrilla group, a member of the historic FMLN. At the beginning, Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Monterrosa Barrios speaks about the enemy force he faced. On March 23, 1983, the political and military contingents of the Rafael Arce Zablah Brigade (BRAZ) arrived in the Agua Blanca plains, north of Morazán. From different points in the eastern part of the country, the five battalions arrived, commanded by their respective political and military leaders. The main purpose of this gathering was to demonstrate to the world the existence of that guerrilla army and the military achievements it had achieved up to that point.
An experimental short film about a day in the life of a barefoot boy who sells newspapers in San Salvador.
A meditation on the intersection of Afro-Caribbean and Indigenous American existence.
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 sexually assaulted on her way home from the nursery that employs her. Dora is a seamstress searching for her missing daughter while trying to keep her relationship with her granddaughter and husband afloat. Art helps these women face the trauma and pain caused by violence as they come together in their determination to bring a rapist to justice.
El Salvador's most dramatic landscapes unfold all around you in this sensory-driven flight experience that captures the nation's soul from above. Soar over active volcanoes, navigate winding rivers, and witness our emerald lakes from impossible heights. Soaring exclusively at Skydeck Millennium in San Salvador.
Between 1980 and 1992, El Salvador was at war. Two Venezuelans joined the guerrilla movement in that Central American country and participated in Radio Venceremos, a subversive radio station that broadcast uninterruptedly during the years of struggle between the government and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front.
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 combat, guerrilla training, and special forces, forms of political propaganda in cities like Ciudad Barrios, as well as meetings of leaders of the General Command and an interview with General Castillo, Deputy Minister of Defense at the time.
Presents the game in which El Salvador classified to the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.
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 will return, but he only writes her letters. Esther, however, keeps a terrible secret from her.
It shows the situation of the peasant communities, and FMLN combatants in Cerro de Guazapa, due to aerial bombardments by the army.