Date and Time
- Wednesday, Oct 1, 2025 7pm
Details
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.
Part of the AFI Latin American Film Festival. For the full lineup visit: AFI.com/Silver/LAFF.
