Friday, November 22, 2024

Tag: Ciro Guerra

Birds of Passage (2018)

Title: Birds of Passage
Rating: NR
Directed by: Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
Written by: Maria Camila Arias and Jacques Toulemonde Vidal
Starring: Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, and Natalia Reyes
Release Date: 2/13/2019
Running Time: 125 minutes

IMDb

What did you think of this film?
During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.


Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Special thanks to Gabe for this submission


Embrace of the Serpent (2015)

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Title: Embrace of the Serpent (aka. El abrazo de la serpiente)
Rating: NR
Directed by: Ciro Guerra
Written by: Ciro Guerra and Jacques Toulemonde Vidal
Based on the diaries of: Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes
Starring: Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet and Antonio Bolivar
Release Date: 5/25/2015
Running Time: 125 minutes

Official Site
IMDb

At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, the third feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in stunning black-and-white, SERPENT centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.


What did you think of this film?

During Credits? No

After Credits? No

Dedications: For Diana Ferro. This film is dedicated to all the people whose songs we will never know.