2016 Academy Award ® Nominee: Best Foreign Language Film – Colombia
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Deep in the Colombian Amazon, Karamakate, a shaman and the last of his people, builds relationships with two Western scientists over the course of forty years. Both are there to find the elusive Yakruna, a psychedelic plant that grows only in the most remote of locations. Based on the travel journals of two real-life 20th century explorers, Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes, Embrace of the Serpent lyrically introduces a jungle paradise sullied by white colonialists and their barbaric idea of civilization. Filmed across a series of breathtaking locations in sensual blacks and whites, Ciro Guerra’s third feature bears more than a passing resemblance to Apocalypse Now and Fitzcarraldo. It is also Colombia’s first-ever entry into the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar race.
Director Ciro Guerra 2015 Colombia/Venezuela/Argentina 123 minutes Unrated (nudity) DCP
