Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego’s new ethnographic drama Birds of Passage is a tale about marijuana trafficking in Colombia in the 60s and 70s seen through the eyes of the indigenous Wayúu community of the Guajira peninsula, the... Read Article
Following on from the success of their 2015 masterpiece Embrace of the Serpent, Colombian duo Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra are back with Birds of Passage, a powerful and unique vision of the Colombian drug trade, seen through... Read Article
Following on from the critically-acclaimed Embrace of the Serpent, Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego once again delve into the oral history of Colombia while throwing up new perspectives. Directed by Gallego and Guerra (NB: Guerra directed Embrace of... Read Article
The UK arrives somewhat late to the party with the June 10th release of Embrace of the Serpent, which premiered at Cannes in May 2015 to a ten-minute standing ovation, before being awarded the Art Cinema Award for... Read Article
The Oscar-nominated film Embrace of the Serpent is coming to UK cinemas from June 10th. Set in the Colombian rainforest, Ciro Guerra’s third feature explores the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his tribe,... Read Article
Ciro Guerra’s Oscar nominated third feature picks up where his second, 2009’s The Wind Journeys (Los Viajes del Viento), left off. His subject material is once again the rich anthropological heritage of his native Colombia, but where the... Read Article
Fresh from featuring in our rundown of the best Latin American films of 2015, director Ciro Guerra’s Embrace Of The Serpent (El Abrazo de la Serpiente) has been nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards... Read Article
Our film critic Juan Pablo Castiblanco Ricaurte picks out eight of his favourite Latin American films from 2015 (in no particular order). Some of these have already seen international releases in 2015, but others like The Club and... Read Article
