21 Positions vs Fireflies at El Mozote
Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7/10 for 21 Positions). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 37m. 21 Positions is the older of the two (2023 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| 21 Positions | Fireflies at El Mozote | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.0/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2023 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 37m | 1h 30m |
| Genres | Drama | Action, Drama, History, War |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | Néstor Ruiz Medina | Ernesto Melara |
| Main cast | María Lázaro, Fernando Barona, Mario Fernández Alonso | Jeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk |
Synopsis
21 Positions
21 key moments in the life of a couple in 21 sequence shots filmed in 16 mm, shot entirely in Andalucia: this is the premise of the feature debut of Néstor Ruiz Medina, Goya nominee for his short film Baraka. María and Fer live an intense and complicit love, in an idyllic setting by the coast of Cádiz: a house with land, a vegetable garden with chickens, a rich social life, and time to spend with each other. Since money does matter in life, all…
Fireflies at El Mozote
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.
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