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The Most Beautiful Deaths in the World

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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, the film provides important historical context, connecting today’s social and political issues with the past.

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