2009 Sydney Latin American Film Festival

Sobreviviendo Guazapa

Casula Powerhouse (details)

6:00pm Sunday 13th September

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Surviving Guazapa

Sobreviviendo Guazapa

The first Salvadoran-made feature film about the civil war.

Roberto Davila, 2008, Feature, El Salvador, 113min, Spanish with English subtitles

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.

 

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