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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- TV Series
- "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.
- 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 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.
- Short
- 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.
- Dramatic composition depicting a host of F.M.L.N. guerrillas marching forth from Monte Alzaco, the spiritual home of Salvadoran resistance.
- Children of the Diaspora is a documentary about the historical and ideological origins of USEU, the Union of Salvadoran University Students, in the United States. Set in 2009, this film follows the journey of a generation of students who go again their parents wishes and travel across El Salvador during a heightened political climate on a quest to unearth a brutal history of war, repression, military dictatorships, and revolutionary activity only to discover that the war for peace and democracy is far from over. The stakes are high as the students observe the political propaganda and polarized community, and ask: What does this all mean? What is my role in the transnational Salvadoran community?
- 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.
- "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."
- 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.
- Five Salvadoran women take to the stage to tell their stories about being poor, single moms and working as street vendors.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Rocio, a college girl, the typical dreamer always looking for love. Suddenly she gets a surprise when she meets the boy of her dreams in an elevator so the she doesn't know is that everything is getting exciting when the elevator is ruined
- A group of robbers decide to hold up a restaurant. When a funeral home employee becomes involved, both parties quickly learn about the very real consequences of gun violence.
- Short
- Camila and Fernando are so engaged using their cell phones that they lose awareness of everything that is happening outside of their screens.
- 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.
- 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 book opens to tell the story of a village in the smallest country of the America Continent, where the magical legend of Pinta the Bird beckons a boy and a girl and makes their dream come true. The community of the village of El Limon in the mountains of El Salvador teamed up with Salvadoran filmmaker, Paula Heredia to make a film that reflects their life, aspirations and cultural roots. To celebrate and give international exposure to the people of Central American. "Pinta the Bird" is the first short film in a trilogy that uses native tales to tell contemporary stories.
- 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.
- 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.
- Lulú wakes up to an empty house. After 5 years, absence has turned her life into a limbo, but she still has hopes of finding her son and husband alive after they were kidnapped on their way to Monterrey Airport, México.
- 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.
- Through the voice of writer and survivor Manlio Argueta, El Salvador's turbulent historical era is revealed, a period when many artists and writers suffered imprisonment, persecution and exile.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- La ReBusqueda is the first romantic comedy ever made in Central America.