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- 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.
- Dreaming of a better life, two brothers from El Salvador cross the border. But their paths diverge with one headed for success, the other for tragedy.
- 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.
- Don Cleo, a humble seller of Piñatas, who lives in a little town in El Salvador; arrives at home after a long day of work to find an extortion letter at his door steps. That letter tells him that if he doesn't pay $500 in 72 hours, a small fortune for him, he will be killed. He quickly decides to raise that money whatever way possible with friends, and acquaintances. However, after various attempts and finding himself further into trouble, he decides to confront his perpetrators. This desperate decision leads him to devastating results.
- A ruthless hitman for the 18th Street gang deals with his sexuality inside an evangelical Salvadoran prison, where he is not just guilty of crimes, but of an unforgivable sin under God and gang: being gay.
- La ReBusqueda is the first romantic comedy ever made in Central America.
- This is a story of love, forgiveness, and about how listening to their inner selves marked the lives of 3 friends, who met at the height of their respective professions, and their transit through life for 20 years.
- Dramatic composition depicting a host of F.M.L.N. guerrillas marching forth from Monte Alzaco, the spiritual home of Salvadoran resistance.
- Miss Universe 2023 debuts moms and trans contestants amid financial struggles. Two married moms and two trans women compete, breaking norms. Crowned Miss Universe sparks change with a powerful speech on inclusivity and diversity.
- 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.
- 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.
- "Antes la Lluvia" is the story of two women, Maria and Esther. Both are in the midst of heavy losses. María is a Salvadoran migrant woman who unfairly loses her job after falling ill and is also ending a painful relationship. Esther, an elderly woman with Alzheimer's, is losing her memory, and with it her most important memories. In the midst of this, they build a special friendship and deep questions about oblivion, which result in a complete reconstruction of María and the making of decisions that make her consider her return home with her son.
- Five Salvadoran women take to the stage to tell their stories about being poor, single moms and working as street vendors.
- After a tragic death, a family of three is forced to move to a desolated part of the country only to be haunted by mythical creatures.
- TV Series
- A cleaning woman steals a Salvadoran Civil War map and hunts for a treasure in the hopes of reuniting with her son.
- Short
- Opposing forces, a government soldier and a guerrilla are trapped together in the heavily-bombed area around the Guazapa volcano. After a hostile meeting, an unlikely friendship develops between the two. When they come across a lost girl in the jungle, they decide to take her back to her family, and the odd trio find themselves having to look out for each other.
- A day in the life of a Salvadoran taxi driver. Attempting to survive the grim realities in San Salvador, Gabriela Rodriguez prioritizes her family as she is pulled in many directions.
- To stop the uprising violence in Central America a group of politicians, scientists and military leaders invest in creating a super soldier; one who could stop crime and help to unite central America in one country, but not everything is what it looks like.
- A boy is left home alone and sits on a table. He enters a world of his own and begins to play by pretending all sorts of situations. When he gets bored, he starts pretending he is a cat and, with nobody to stop him, wreaks havoc with a book stand. Still unsatisfied, he changes character and decides to pretend he is a bird. This minimalist and whimsical short film is completely devoid of scenery, except for a table set in a limbo, where a dancer interprets the character of the boy and his imaginary adventures. Most of it shot in black and white, it contains a scene in which the boy leaves his imaginary world and brings down an entire collection of books in a bookshelf; as the boy enters this moment in reality the scene turns to color. A silent film, a music score accompanies the actions of the boy.
- Filmed in stunning black and white, this immersive dive into the lives of the people of Quelepa, El Salvador, is a tour de force of experimentation along the lines of the work of Mexican surrealist director Carlos Reygadas (SILENT LIGHT, POST TENEBRAS LUX), an ethnographic slice of life as vibrant as it is enigmatic. As we spend time with our central character, we slowly peel back the layers of his daily life and experiences, catching glimpses of life in a small mountain village teeming with history.
- After serving ten years behind bars for her miscarriage, considered by her government to be an act of aggravated murder, Teodora Vásquez becomes a spokesperson for the other 16 Salvadoran women behind bars for the same "crime" in this story of sorority, resilience, and solidarity.
- A young woman in El Salvador wishes to hear the village bell before she joins a caravan to the US, but the antique bell hasn't rung in 25 years and there is only one man left that can repair it: a drunkard that lives in the cemetery.
- Two little farmer girls talk about the many things they wish could own, and those they could do without. Based on the short story by Salvadorian writer Salarrué.
- A group of veterans "guerrilla and soldiers" faces hatred from the past and a prevailing grief when they return, 25 years later, to the neighborhoods of San Salvador where they fought the final battle of the Salvadoran Civil War.
- El Salvador at the height of the civil war in the La Praviana neighborhood, transgender woman Viento seeks revenge for the murder of her partner and the disappearance of her fellow trans sisters.
- Everyday life among the members of the free community in Morazán, El Salvador, led by leaders of the Front for National Liberation Farabundo Martí (FMNL).
- In an attempt to evoke the past, Guillermo innocently gets involved in drug dealing to get his hands on Angel Dust. Caught in family conflicts and facing threats in a business he doesn't know, he hits bottom, leading to a tragic outcome.
- "In the Salvadoran civil war, my father and thousands more were captured and tortured by the State. These are some of their stories. When I turned 33, my mother told me that my father, during the Salvadoran civil war, had been captured and tortured for 33 days by the National Police. Two years later I had the courage to ask him and other men and women about those days. These people do not ask for revenge, all that they ask is to know the truth."
- Lucía is eleven years old and is the oldest of eight siblings. They are part of a family living in an environment of neglect and poverty. One day, she returns home after selling something, and none of her siblings are there, they have disappeared. Neither her mother, nor the neighbors, nor anyone else knows where they went or why they were taken. Her mother never talks about that day. Lucía goes far away, abandoning the lake, her lifelong place. However, she never stops searching for her siblings with an unbreakable instinct.
- 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.
- Eugenia is a brazilian girl who lives in El Salvador trying to complete her activities in a crazy day.
- "Exquisite Corpse" combines documentary, fiction and experimental film-making as it traverses the social and oniric landscape of a region struggling between modernity and tradition. A peasant named Juventino, is killed during a fiery nighttime battle, dedicated to purify the city. As he leaves his world in the midst of this ritual he is infused with visions as his own mind attempts to filter and purify his fears and his desires. Juventino's myths, as torrid and exuberant as the geography, are often more concrete than his reality. The inhabitants aid his journey by performing rituals with the hope of understanding, pleasing and obtaining favors from the beyond. During the day these rituals unleash repressed emotions, which at sundown are liberated into lascivious celebration. His corpse, during the autopsy, unveils something more repugnant than his death, the submission of the living to it. This fantastical collective biography immerses into a dense mythological universe by narrating the life of this being in the process of unbeing, this character becoming this corpse.
- Follow Chiyo, the man who participated in the revolution of El Salvador during the 1980s when he was just 13 years old. The places, the guerrilla methods and the psychology behind the people who join a revolution against a fascist government during the final years of the Cold War.
- Nacho and Ela give life back to the old and abandoned Cinema Libertad with the use of a ray of light, they both tell stories to the people living inside the old cinema.
- Salvadoran born Amanda Reyes lost her father to murder in 1929. She was three. She was taken away from her family and lived her entire life not knowing who they were. In 2009 her son, Marcos Reyes Villatoro, searched the entire country for the family. His search for the Reyes family is more than curiosity; it's his obsession. Like many Latinos in the U.S., Marcos has the need to know on a deeper level, What does it mean to be Latino? He searches for his roots. And what he finds is not pleasant. His family was involved in the Salvadoran struggles in a way he'd never dreamed.
- A seemingly ordinary Salvadoran woman discovers she is far from being ordinary. Based in El Salvador, Melaktik showcases the different forms of gender violence present in this Central American country. Starring Salvadoran/Canadian actress Vanesa Tomasino and directed by up and coming Salvadoran directors Pedro Guzman and Sofia Samour.
- The "Novia con Derecho" series is about the protagonist that everyone theorizes is called Oscar, he walks the world with his cousin and "el loco brayan" escaping from a mother with rights who wants to be the wife of the protagonist of the series. The series is great, it has good animation, although it also has several of its own errors, such as a story that knows how to squeeze the juice out of the good one.
- The polo champion tells the story of the life and work of Enrique Álvarez Córdova, the substantial Salvadoran landowner, member of one of the 14 richest families of the time, Great sportsman and polo champion, and a principal promoter of an Agrarian Transformation or Reform in the nineteen seventies. He acted together with a group of intellectuals during a period of upheaval and repression from the state against the popular sectors during the military government of Coronel Arturo Armado Molina. He was minister of agriculture and livestock. It tells the memories of the successful cattle ranch El Jobo, which Enrique later left on his own employees' property. Prominent intellectuals who were protagonists of the story will participate in the documentary as will people who know him, landowners who opposed the Agrarian Reform, and people who benefited when Don Enrique donated his land to those working it. The film tells the story of the assassination of Enrique by the hands of the Salvadorean alt right death squads and gives an actual perspective on the landownership situation in El Salvador. The failure to process the Agrarian Reform was on of the deciding factors for the start of the civil war, in addition to the murder of Enrique Alvarez and the other leaders of the FDR. Enrique Álvarez Córdova was a magnificent person, of high humanist values, and a genuine philanthropist who had the courage to fight with his people against a criminal dictatorship. The polo champion has three acts: In a first act, the main characters are presented. Some of them are telling the story of the Álvarez family since their arrival from Colombia, in 1872. Enrique's childhood is described, the social context of his birth, in which the 1932 massacre took place where 30,000 indigenous people died at the hands of the Salvadoran army. Enrique lives in a luxurious house relatively away from those events. Enrique's youth as a millionaire studying in the United States in a school for rich children, captain of the tennis team, outstanding soccer and football player and polo player. Very popular at your school especially with the ladies. Great dancer, he sings and participates in many high society events. In the second act the characters tell how Enrique becomes Minister of Agriculture. The problems begin with a project in which he must limit the size of the lands of powerful families. The military wants an agrarian reform, but they fear rich families. Enrique as minister also comes from the richest families and knows that agrarian reform is urgent. He realizes the enormous social problem and the poverty of the peasants. He begins to become aware of the serious social problem in El Salvador. The military retreats before powerful families, because they are organized in a radical movement of landowners. Enrique feels betrayed by the military and resigns as Minister of Agriculture in 1973, He goes to live on his successful cattle ranch but begins to carry out an agrarian reform with his own workers. Many thought he was crazy ... In 1979, in the middle of a revolutionary situation in maximum dramatic intensity, a coup took place on the part of young military officers, the Communist Party and other sectors with good intentions. Enrique is again Minister of Agriculture but only for three months ... The coup fails, because the old military gains support from the conservative sectors of Washington. The repression of the army to the Salvadoran people is brutal and thousands of deaths occur. This is at the end of 1979, but in 1980, Enrique Álvarez decided to join the Popular Liberation Forces, a guerrilla political-military organization of the Salvadoran people. Enrique works as a leader in the social sector and is elected as the founding president of the legendary Revolutionary Democratic Front, FDR.
- In the 1970s, the 1500 organized workers of Puerto el Triunfo - mostly women - thanks to their struggles were amongst the more privileged laborers in the country. Then, state repression eliminated union leaders or drove them into exile. By 1990, the industry collapsed. The film provides a window into neoliberalism.
- Three survivors of the brutal Salvadoran Civil war reflect on their experiences during the conflict, as well as the necessary post-war society wide process of forgiveness and rebuilding. Experienced from three vastly different perspectives (a female guerrilla military leader, a Jesuit priest, and a child), Great Love intentionally explores the war from a human view, and also asks what comes after such terrible violence. For a brighter Salvadoran future, the answer emerges: love, forgiveness, and reconciliation.
- A humanoid that wanders on a deserted land remembers its interactions with the last man on earth.