Monday, 5-7 McCormick Screening Room
El abrazo de la serpiente (2015) features a visually rich and disturbing exploration of the ravages of colonialism. The third feature by Ciro Guerra, the film was an Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film in 2015. Serpiente centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, following his relationship with two scientists over the course of 40 years. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of the explorers Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes, who traveled through the Colombian Amazon in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.
Ciro Guerra was born on Río de Oro (Cesar, Colombia) in 1981 and studied film and television at the National University of Colombia. At the age of 21, after directing four multi-award-winning short films, he wrote and directed La Sombra del Caminante, his feature directorial debut, which won awards at the San Sebastian, Toulouse, Mar de Plata, Trieste, Havana, Quito, Cartagena, Santiago, and Warsaw film festivals, and was selected for 60 more. (From http://embraceoftheserpent.oscilloscope.net/#)
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