Spanish and Latin American film group
Embrace Of The SerpentJuly 4th, ACMI CINEMAS, 6:30 pm.
A breathtaking odyssey through the Amazon in search of a rare flower alleged to have healing properties
WINNER: Directors' Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival 2015
WINNER: 8 Colombian Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Cinematography and Sound.
At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in Embrace the Serpent, the third feature by Ciro Guerra.
Filmed in stunning black-and-white, the story centres 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-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who travelled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.
Director: Ciro Guerra
Country: Colombian co-production
Year: 2015
Duration: 125 mins
Classification: M
Spanish/Portuguese/Latin/Indigenous languages/German/Catalan with English subtitles