THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DEATHS IN THE WORLD

Special Features: Q&A with co-directors Quique Aviles and Ellie Walton, producer/composer Hugo Najera, producer Carolina Fuentes and film editor Magee McIlvaine

[LAS MUERTES MÁS BELLAS DEL MUNDO]
As a deadly civil war threatened to tear El Salvador apart in the 1980s, many families fled north and made Washington, DC, their new home. Columbia Road in Adams Morgan became a hotspot of Salvadoran resettlement, with restaurants, cafés and music soon filling storefronts and spreading to nearby Mount Pleasant. But the legacy of violence remained inescapable, forcing Salvadorans to figure out a new way forward. Filmmaker and poet Quique Aviles exhumes his own history, alongside several other DC-area Salvadorans’, to explore how art was able to heal the wounds of long-held trauma. Aviles and co-director Ellie Walton reunite after LA MANPLESA: AN UPRISING REMEMBERED to tell this uplifting story of art, community and perseverance. –Josh Gardner

DIR Quique Aviles, Ellie Walton. U.S., 2024, color, 70 min. In Spanish and English with English and Spanish subtitles. NOT RATED

Run Time: 70 Minutes

Opening Date: Wednesday, October 01, 2025

Genre: Documentary

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