I had big plans when I first sat down to watch The Embrace of the Serpent. Armed with pen and legal pad, I resolved to record every plot point, key quote and stylistic detail. After about two minutes, ...

Karamakate (Nilbio Torres), a young Amazonian shaman and one of the last of his tribe, has made peace with his solitary, early 20th century existence alongside a river. So he’s a bit surprised when ...

MAR DEL PLATA – Having won the biggest prize at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, Colombian Ciro Guerra’s “Embrace of the Serpent” – a ravishing but unequivocal put-down of white invaders’ obliteration of ...

The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a ...

It is 1909 on the Amazon River in Columbia, and a German explorer is traveling up the river in search of a sacred plant when he encounters a shaman, the last survivor of his people.