07.03–13.03 ARTIS CINEMA PRESENTS: IBEROFEST MOVIE WEEK

THE EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (El abrazo de la serpiente)
Colombia / Venezuela / Argentina 2015, 125 min
Director: Ciro Guerra
Cast: Brionne Davis, Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Jan Bijvoet, Nicolás Cancino, Yauenkü Migue

The film tells two stories, taking place in 1909 and 1940, both starring Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his tribe. He travels with two scientists, German Theodor Koch-Grunberg and American Richard Evans Schultes, to look for the rare yakruna, a sacred plant. The film is loosely inspired by the diaries written by the two scientists during their field work in the Amazon.

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