Uploaded January 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, the third feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in stunning black-and-white, SERPENT centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.
2016 Academy Award Nominee - Best Foreign Language Film
In Theaters February 17, 2016
Written & Directed by Ciro Guerra
Visit the official website: EMBRACEOFTHESERPENT.OSCILLOSCOPE.NET
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From Oscilloscope Laboratories, distributors of the best in American independent, foreign, and documentary films.
At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, the third feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in stunning black-and-white, SERPENT centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.
2016 Academy Award Nominee - Best Foreign Language Film
In Theaters February 17, 2016
Written & Directed by Ciro Guerra
Visit the official website: EMBRACEOFTHESERPENT.OSCILLOSCOPE.NET
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From Oscilloscope Laboratories, distributors of the best in American independent, foreign, and documentary films.
