Perspective Film Series Presents: Embrace of the Serpent
Directed By: Ciro Guerra
2015 | Cubeo, Huitoto, Ticuna, Wanano, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Catalan, Latin, English (Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina) | 125 mins
DOORS: 7PM
SCREENING: 7:30PM
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ABOUT THE FILM:
This month’s perspective explores the tension of difference in relationship with the inevitability of need. Consider each element of the environment to be a character in the story, just as Indigenous belief suggests, and then imagine being foreign and precedently dangerous within this sphere, yet dependent on it. How does a foreign substance known to be lethal to the environment convince fellowship?
Inspired by the true diaries of In the early 1900s, a young shaman in the Colombian Amazon helps a sick German explorer and his local guide search for a rare healing plant.
Genre: Adventure, History, Drama
Original Language: Spanish
Director: Ciro Guerra
Producer: Cristina Gallego
Writer: Ciro Guerra, Jacques Toulemonde Vidal
Distributor: Oscilloscope Pictures