Arturo Menéndez Trailers

Fireflies at El Mozote TrailerThe Ballad of Hortensia TrailerPablo's Word Trailer

Arturo Menéndez (born October 3, 1978) is a Salvadoran film director, screenwriter, and producer known for his contributions to contemporary cinema in El Salvador. He studied film direction in New York and screenwriting in Madrid, and is the founder of the independent production company Mecosta Films International. Menéndez gained international recognition with his short film Cinema Libertad, which was showcased at numerous festivals worldwide, and his 2014 feature Malacrianza, considered the first Salvadoran fiction film in decades to be presented internationally. He also directed La palabra de Pablo (2018), a drama that was acquired for distribution by HBO, further marking a milestone for Salvadoran cinema. Over more than two decades, Menéndez has been a leading voice in bringing Salvadoran stories to international audiences, combining social insight with cinematic craft, and continues to create films that explore the country’s cultural and human dimensions.

Most Popular Arturo Menéndez Trailers

Total trailers found: 6

Fireflies at El Mozote Trailer (2025)

11 December 2025

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.

Cinema Libertad Trailer (2010)

31 March 2010

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.

The Crow's Nest Trailer (2014)

04 October 2014

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 Ballad of Hortensia Trailer (2024)

12 December 2024

A narcissistic comedian wakes up in the opposite sex body following an automobile accident.

Pablo's Word Trailer (2017)

02 January 2017

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.

César Menéndez: el cazador de fantasías Trailer (2002)

14 March 2002

César Menéndez confesses that he has lived and, at the same time, is a man condemned to paint. Through a brief tour we enter the interior of his work and his world, loaded with a great religious and sacrilegious metaphor, in the tradition of Luis Buñuel or Federico Fellini.