Aftersun vs Fireflies at El Mozote
Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.7/10 for Aftersun). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 41m. Aftersun is the older of the two (2022 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| Aftersun | Fireflies at El Mozote | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.7/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2022 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 41m | 1h 30m |
| Genres | Drama | Action, Drama, History, War |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | Charlotte Wells | Ernesto Melara |
| Main cast | Spike Fearn, Frankie Corio, Paul Mescal, Brooklyn Toulson, Celia Rowlson-Hall | Jeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk |
Synopsis
Aftersun
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between miniDV footage as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.
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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