El Salvador's civil war in the 80s. I'm a member of that cinema movement and I consider it very  important have gone to the 20th Images and Words Festival to show what we are doing in El Salvador. What is the message of "Among The Dead"? My movie is about how Salvadorians live with the concept of  "Death". There are various subjects that I show from a curious, privileged and critical point of view. As a  filmmaker, I don't entirely support the ideas I'm exploring, because to me Life  is the most important thing. However, to many Salvadorians, Death is the way to  solve many issues in the country and that is unacceptable to me. I need to express my disapproval with the means that I have at hand. I reveal the reality  of one of the most violent countries in the world; even when the war has been over for many years, Salvadorians don't seem in a path to build a culture of  peace. There is state of permanent violence in El Salvador with 3 000 assassinated persons in horrible crimes and 4 000 persons disappeared,  sometime entire families. Today we are witnessing that the politicians are not the solution to the problem. My movie generates an exchange of opinions and that is very interesting. What is the relevance of a documentary like Among the Dead among Canadians? This movie has generated a lot of interest in many places  of the world. I think that for Canadians this is