Embrace of the Serpent
El abrazo de la serpiente
“ A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world. ”
CINEMA2015-05-25
DIGITAL2015-11-07
RegionAR / CO
Runtime125 MIN
Media TypeMovie
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Nexus Editorial Perspective Nexus Original
“Shows colonial exploration as knowledge extraction and cultural devastation from an Amazonian perspective.”
Storyline
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. Inspired by the journals of the first
DIRECTOR / Director
Ciro Guerra
KEYWORDS
indigenousreligious conversionamazon rainforestbased on true storyspiritualitycolonisationreligious fundamentalismnaturecolonialismamazon tribeindigenous peopleschamanismo
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Colonial History & Narratives of Resistance
Bloodstained scars left by imperial conquest—the oppressed rising from the ashes to reclaim sacred human sovereignty.
Shows colonial exploration as knowledge extraction and cultural devastation from an Amazonian perspective.
