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- During twelve years, between 1980 and 1992, El Salvador suffered a fratricide war. In 1989, the biggest offensive against the Salvadorean military forces was undertook by the Guerrilla force. The soviet Block collapsed. The military forces murdered the Jesuits fathers in the capital city. Three years later, the Peace Accords are negotiated in Mexico and the war in El Salvador comes to an end. ARENA, the right-wing party arose in 1981 during the armed conflict. It seized power in 1989 with Alfredo Cristiani as president. The party, settled in the presidency of the Republic since 1989, faces now the challenge of reinvent itself after twenty years in the power in order to win the 15Th of March the presidential elections 2009. For the first time since its legalization, the political party that arose from the Salvadorean guerrilla thanks to the 1992 Peace Accords, the FMLN, is capable of winning the elections. Their candidate, the journalist Mauricio Funes, is presented as someone who neither did take up weapons during the armed conflict nor did he belong to the diplomatic structure of the FMLN in the 80's. The 15Th of March presidential elections 2009 could be considered as the last battle, the great battle at the ballot box. Never before in the history of El Salvador, has been the left-wing so close seize power through democratic means.
- In 1932 the army and "citizen militias" in El Salvador brutally crushed an uprising of peasants in western El Salvador, killing 10,000 people. Survivors share their harrowing memories, many for the first time.
- Everyone is talking about the Mayan Prophecies of 2012. But who is listening to the Maya? This film brings us the voices of the Mayan people as they share their perspectives on the prophecies of their ancestors and their fight to defend Mother Earth and their culture from destruction. Today, on the eve of the 2012 solstice, Mayans are being assassinated and evicted from their lands by governments and multi-national corporations in the name of 'development'. 2012 The Mayan Word is both a message of hope and a call to action. featuring testimonies from contemporary Mayans throughout Mesoamerica, from spiritual guides to activists, community leaders, farmers, artists, teachers and children, this film is an extraordinary journey into the heart of Mayan struggle and spirituality.
- A Bridge Apart looks at the epic migration of immigrants from Central America and Mexico to the United States from the point of view of the migrants themselves. Haunting photography, dramatic narration by Edward James Olmos and first hand interviews give witness to their harrowing journey. If a parent cannot find enough work to sustain a family, they are pushed by economic hardship and pulled to the U.S. by the promise of better life. The film also shows how simple economic development in small towns and villages can transform a desperate living situation into one that can sustain it's people - providing them options not to have to leave their home. A Bridge Apart - so near yet so far.
- "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.
- All over the world, people from different cultures instinctively go to the walls, painting their stories as a way to give voice to their life experiences. In Beyond The Walls, we enter the murals for a personal view of lives affected by violence, poverty or conflict. Beyond The Walls brings to life the impact of traumatic events on those who survive.
- Jonah,29, 'illegal immigrant' speak about his childhood in El Salvador and how he became a punk who lives between NY and San Fran dumpster diving for food and coordinating 'Food not bombs'. He owns the clothes on his back and his accordion. Bushwick, BK, summer 2010, it's bubbling with fresh creativity. When my visa expired I went with Adrian to visit Jonah's family in El Salvador. We travel through the country and met moving characters deported from the US. We returned to Brooklyn during Halloween. In November, I visited Jonah in SF as he helped at the food bank for Thanksgiving. With friends,we drove back to NY by the coast, the grand canyon, Sedona, and then in new Mexico the engine of the van exploded
- Five Salvadoran women take to the stage to tell their stories about being poor, single moms and working as street vendors.
- Caravan of Hope on the road to solidarity is a Documentary about solidarity. A trip from Toronto, Canada, through USA, Mexico, and Guatemala, ending in El Salvador. Driving a donation of 7 Ambulances to the smallest country of America. 6000 Km, 12 days, 7 ambulances, 19 volunteers, one big heart.The Canadian arm embraced Latin America through a group volunteers from different origins, religions, social and economic backgrounds. Just one thing in mind to globalize solidarity.
- The infamous 18 are El Salvador's biggest gang. They battle with the rival MS13 for control of the drugs market. They charge 'renta' to local businesses and kill those who don't pay. They are teenagers, the orphans of civil war, born in the heat of battle and unfazed by death. As we enter the desperate, death-defying world of the 18, we begin to see the political ingredients of one of the fastest developing gangs in the world.
- 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?
- Connected By Coffee tells the story of Latin American coffee farmers and how our daily brew is deeply connected to a troubled past and hopeful future. Following a 1000-mile journey from Mexico to Nicaragua, the film will show how equitable trading relationships are empowering communities and bringing social justice.
- Contraste is a film about the way woman live in the poorest latin american countries. The main idea of the movie is to show the story of two woman who live in one of the smallest Central American countries and how society has an impact on them. Julia and Maria are two women who were born and raised in the same country in Central America; however, they have completely different lifestyles. Julia comes from one of the wealthiest families in the country and has always had everything she wanted. Maria, on the other hand, is a single mother who works as a maid and lives in constant distress and concern. This film is an eye opening experience to the reality of one of the poorest and most violent countries in the world. Contrast shows how some people living in third world countries can have a luxurious life while others, right next to them, do not even have the possibility to buy food or medicine.
- A solar storm hits Central America. Its inhabitants must face life disconnected from technology. Fear, friendship and love emerge as they come together with others, while the skies are lit by lights never seen before.
- Arturo, Wendy and Amílcar, live in a volcanic lake in El Salvador. Ancestral lives converge in their inner transformation, starting with the sport of sailing, learn to dominate nature, stand out internationally, overcome violence and adversity. From Windward to Sotavento intimate story, which teaches us to turn headwinds into favorable winds.
- 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).
- 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.
- Deadly evil forces hunt four curious and ambitious teenagers who stole a black magic manuscript from a witch crafter who it wants it back.
- 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.
- Dramatic composition depicting a host of F.M.L.N. guerrillas marching forth from Monte Alzaco, the spiritual home of Salvadoran resistance.
- Four Cardinal Points brings together four inspiring stories from North, South, East and West El Salvador. With a soft poetic veil, these stories portray a rich cultural, ecological and social diversity, showing a viewpoint of the country that distances itself from the accounts of violence that prevail in the Central American region.
- No one is neither entirely good nor entirely bad
- "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.
- The friendship between two guys must survive a trial by fire when they fight each other for a girl and a car, and not just any car, it's a Mercedes-Benz.
- A poorly equipped and underpaid team of forensic anthropologists is sent to study the countless mass graves in El Salvador, trying to identify the victims using fragments of bodies. Desperate mothers go for DNA tests in the hope of being able to bury the bones of their sons and daughters.
- 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.
- This story shows the last grandfather who knows how to play the indigenous flute called reed whistle to accompany the indigenous dance "El Tigre y El Venado", while teaching the melodies to a young man so that he does not miss the tradition, he tells him about the indigenous massacre from 1932 in El Salvador to which he survived.
- An emotional journey through more than half a century of the Cuban Revolution through the personal and collective memory of the prominent Cuban journalist, screenwriter and writer Eliseo Alberto de Diego García Marrúz (Lichi). His only confessed mortal sin: "Nobody has loved Cuba more than me".
- The road for the migrants towards the USA has always been hazardous and difficult. When the war on drugs was declared in Mexico in 2006, violence quickly spiraled up, and migrants, lacking a legal status became the perfect victims. This documentary approaches the missing persons subject in this country from the psychological, social and institutional points of view. Through interviews to several players in this field, specialists and relatives of victims, a portrait of the national landscape of migration, drug traffic and violence is presented.
- 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.
- Mari embarks on a journey to El Salvador, Brazil, and Canada to meet and connect with her family members who have been separated for 40 years due to the Salvadoran Civil War.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. At the end of the film the protagonists reflect upon their struggles in the light of current reality.
- La ReBusqueda is the first romantic comedy ever made in Central America.
- "La Vida Loca" reflects a depressing and hopeless reality. The documentary, by photojournalist and filmmaker Christian Poveda, follows some of the members of "la dieciocho", the so-called 18th Street gang in a poor San Salvador neighborhood.
- 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.
- Salome is young woman who's planning to run away with her sister Gaby from the abuse to which they are subject to by her mother and her stepfather. Plan that suddenly changes when Salome is caught stealing from a store to feed her sister. In jail she meets Sandra, another young woman who's in jail for cocaine possession. Sandra lives with her boyfriend Carlos who's a drug dealer. They are both addicted to cocaine but are trying to kick the habit. Lucas and Evelyn are a upper class couple who been married for five year and have been trying to conceive for the past four years. After so much of getting no results, Lucas is getting impatient. When Salome crosses their path, their lives change forever.