<p>Each year, millions of monarch butterflies migrate over 3,000 miles from Canada to Mexico, arriving in Michoacan on the exact dates of Day of the Dead. To the indigenous communities that greet them, they are the ancestors returning, but this year the butterflies did not arrive.</p>

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Retorno De Las Animas (Arrival of Lost Souls)

As millions of monarch butterflies arrive in a remote Mazahua community for the Day of the Dead, a Mexican family prepares to welcome back the spirits of their ancestors in a poetic exploration of grief, memory, and nature.

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