Embrace of the Serpent
El abrazo de la serpiente
Production details
Country: Colombia
Year: 2015
Duration: 125 min
Direction: Ciro Guerra
Zita Folkets Bio
Birger Jarlsgatan 37
111 45 Stockholm
(T) Östermalmstorg
Zita Folkets Bio is the oldest autonomous cinema in Stockholm. The cinema’s task is to show quality films for both adults and children that do not usually appear on the bigger cinemas.
About the film
Karamakate was once a powerful shaman in the Amazon. Today is the last survivor of his people, and lives in voluntary isolation in the depths of the jungle. But his life is turned upside down the day that Evan, an American ethnobotanist, arrives to his remote hideout looking for the yakruna, a powerful hidden plant, able to teach how to dream. Karamakate agrees to go with Evan and together they embark on a journey to the heart of the jungle in which the past, present and future get confused, and in which the shaman will recover his lost memories.
Shown again in Klarabiografen on Sunday, September 25 at 11:30 in connection to the seminar Film, environment and indigenous people!