Embrace of the Serpent

Produced in 2015

Film Information

Festival Edition 2015 - Edition 15

Section Panorama

Director Ciro Guerra

Country Colombia

Duration 125 min

Language Spanish

Category Panorama 2015

Producer Cristina Gallego

Screenplay Ciro Guerra, Jacques Toulemonde Vidal

Cast Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolivar, Nicolas Cancino, Brionne Davis

Genre Drama

Synopsis

Embrace of the Serpent tells the epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them.