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BIRDS OF PASSAGE

PAJAROS DE VERANO

By Ciro GUERRA, Cristina GALLEGO

PRAGDA - as DISTR DVD-video, VOD, World

Environmental - Completed 2018

Havana Film Festival 2018

CORAL AWARD BEST FILM

BFI London FF 2018

BEST FILM - HONOURABLE MENTION

Lima Latin American Film Festival 2018

BEST DIRECTOR

CAIRO IFF 2018

WINNER INTERNATIONAL, COMPETITION

Chicago IFF 2018

BEST ART DIRECTION, CINEMATOGRAPHY

Fenix Film Awards 2018

BEST FILM, ACTRESS, MUSIC

Academy Award 2019

COLOMBIA'S SUBMISSION FOR BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Environmental, Social issues
- Countries
- DENMARK, MEXICO, COLOMBIA
- Languages
- SPANISH, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 125 mn
- Director(s)
- Ciro GUERRA, Cristina GALLEGO
- Cast
- Carmiña MARTÍNEZ, José ACOSTA, Natalia REYES, Jhon NARVÁEZ, Greider MEZA, José Vicente COTE, Juan Bautista MARTÍNEZ
- Synopsis
- In the 1970s, as an American-fueled marijuana boom hits Colombia, farmers quickly turn into seasoned businessmen starting a narco-trafficking era known as “la Bonanza Marimbera.”
  
  In the Guajira desert, one indigenous Wayúu clan takes a leading role. Guided by matriarch Ursula Pushaina, the “Birds of Passage”—drug runners—face the constant risk of violence and incarceration from the outsiders in Northern Colombia. The cultural differences between the native population and the newcomers begin a brutal war that threatens to destroy the Wayúu way of life. As greed, passion, and honor blend together over the decades, the family’s unity, their lives, and their ancestral traditions are all put at stake.
  A true story, the visually striking Birds of Passage is as much a thriller as it is an anthropological study on the consequences of outside influences to indigenous traditions.