‘El abrazo de la serpiente (Embrace of the Serpent) - Ciro Guerra’

(CO/VE/AR, 2015, 125’, OV, ond. st. EN)

Embrace of the Serpent tells the legendary story of a first contact, a first meeting, a betrayal and finally a friendship that becomes more important than life itself. The protagonists are a shaman, the last survivor of his people, and two scientists who, over a period of 40 years, explore the Amazonian forest in search of a sacred plant with the power to heal them.