EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT

EL ABRAZO DE LA SERPIENTE

By Ciro GUERRA

OSCILLOSCOPE PICTURES

Drama - Completed 2015

A tale of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-trascending friendship, between Karamakate, an amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, become the first men to travel and discover the Amazon.

Festivals
& Awards

Directors' Fortnight 2015
Toronto - TIFF 2015
Contemporary World Cinema
San Sebastian FF 2015
Horizontes Latinos
BFI London FF 2015
Journey
Ventana Sur 2015
Video Library
Sundance Film Festival 2016
Spotlight
    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • COLOMBIA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 122 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ciro GUERRA
    • Synopsis
    • A tale of the first encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, become the first men to travel the Northwest Amazon in search of ancestral knowledge.