Outdoor Screening - The Most Beautiful Deaths in the World

Las Muertes Más Bellas del Mundo/The Most Beautiful Deaths in the World tells a story of Washington DC’s Salvadoran community - its struggles and humanity - through the eyes of artists of the diaspora who made art out of war as they created a home in the nation’s capital. The film follows a poet’s journey to find the truth about his family’s past and find healing through his writing of the poem that became the title of the film. The film interweaves a collection of artist portraits – a photographer, a dancer/choreographer, and several musicians – with a wider group of voices and archival images to tell a compelling and intimate narrative of a community resolving trauma and finding identity, salvation, and joy. At a time when El Salvador and its mega-prisons are much in the news and immigrant communities are under attack, the film provides important historical context, connecting…