Richard Boyle, a valamikor sikeres 42 éves újságíró 1980-ban Salvadorban polgárháborút tudósít. Duarte elnök katonai rezsimje az USA támogatásával akar leszámolni a Farabundo Martí Felszabadítási Front harcosaival és támogatóikkal. A riporter közvetlen tanúja lesz Romero érsek meggyilkolásának is, és tudomást szerez a katonai vezetés által irányított illegális halálbrigádok rémtetteiről. Amikor barátnőjével, Mariával Kaliforniába akar menekülni, a határ előtt a nőt leszállítják a buszról, és mint illegális bevándorlót visszatoloncolják a halálos veszedelembe.
Egy rendíthetetlen újságíró belekeveredik a saját sztorijába, amikor segít gyengélkedő apjának nyélbe ütni egy fegyverüzletet Közép-Amerikában.
Világszerte jelenleg több mint 300 ezer gyermek szolgál hadseregben. Az ártatlanság hangjai, melyet a Film Week az év egyik legjobb filmjének választott, egy 11 éves fiú, Chava igaz történetén alapul, akinek az otthona 1980-ban harctérré változik a polgárháború sújtotta Salvadorban. A film megrendítő dokumentum-látlelet a közelmúltból, az alapvető emberi jogok semmibe vevéséről, a gyerekek és családok szétszakításáról. Az igazság, a hit, a szeretet, az erkölcs, a tudás, a béke megsemmisítő képei peregnek, miközben családok százai küzdenek kiskorú fiúgyermekükért, nehogy katonának vigyék el őket.
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 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 powerful three-part documentary studying the US involvement in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. The differing factions - Sandinista leaders, Guatemalan campesinos, CIA operatives, Contras and US government apologists - are interviewed and, in the absence of a controlling narration, the audience is encouraged to draw its own conclusions.
It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader is on the front lines of the battle for her people and her country. With unprecedented access to FMLN guerrilla camps, the filmmakers dramatically chronicle Maria's daily life in the war.
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 fend for themselves in the relentless Sonoran desert of Arizona.
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 with us.
Return to El Salvador explores the reconstruction of El Salvador, post-civil war. The film revisits the struggles of the nation and examines what drives over 700 Salvadorans to flee their homeland each day, often risking their lives to illegally enter countries in search of a better life for their families. The film also profiles a number of Salvadorans effected by the civil war. One couple, who fled death threats in the 1980s, finds asylum and a political platform in the United States. The film also follows a different couple who, after escaping the war, returned to El Salvador to work with churches and poor communities.
Halál, megnyomorodás, börtön valamint elképesztő szegénység és az ezzel járó reménytelenség a sorsa a La Vida Loca főszereplőinek. Megrázó, a cinéma vérité legjobb hagyományait követő dokumentumfilm El Salvador hatalmas bűnbandáiról, és arról, hogy a nagypolitika húzásai miként csapódnak le az egyszerű emberek mindennapjaiban.
Years after the Salvadoran military destroyed the village of Cinquera in that country’s civil war, survivors have returned to rebuild their community. Soulful, beautifully rendered, this amazing debut is an evocative testament to place, memory and the power of life to rebound from tragedy.
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.
The battle of El Salvador and its revolutionary history, from the time of the Spanish conquest and colonization, to the insurgency of the 80s, approached by a Puerto Rican filmmaker immersed in the conflict. Depicts a host of F.M.L.N. guerrillas marching forth from Monte Alzaco, the spiritual home of Salvadoran resistance.
In 1981 Montreal, four Salvadoran siblings, new to Canada, seek distance from the uprisings occurring in their home country by hitting a night club, but it does not go as planned.
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.
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.
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.
In El Salvador, Chelino tells about the indigenous massacre of 1932, of which he survived, while he teaches the melodies of traditional Salvadoran dances.