The cempasúchil flower is used during the Day of the Dead to help guide spirits back to their families, often placed on the altars built to receive our loved ones. As we follow the flower’s migration, we encounter people who have lost a loved one to Covid-19. Converging the flower’s omniscient perspective with our characters’ loving tributes, más y más y más flores offers both an understanding of the unique grief of losing a loved one to the pandemic and a cultural tradition that helps us honor the lives we’ve lost by guiding them back home.
Official Selection Mexico 3
Official Selection Mexico 3
Official Selection Mexico 3
Director's bio:
César Martínez Barba (b. 1994) is a Mexican American filmmaker living in Queens, NY. César has been selected as a Sundance Institute Fellow, a 2022 North Star Fellow at the Points North Institute, the Fall 2018 Social Justice Filmmaker Fellow at the Jacob Burns Film Center, a 2018 NeXt Doc Fellow, and is a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective. His films have been featured on POV and The New Yorker.