
The Revenant(2015)
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.


“A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.”
The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.

Nilbio Torres
Karamakate (Young)

Antonio Bolívar
Karamakate (Old)

Jan Bijvoet
Theodor Koch-Grunberg

Brionne Davis
Richard Evans Schultes
Yauenkü Miguee
Manduca

Luigi Sciamanna
The Missionary
Nicolás Cancino
The Messiah
Pediwake Daniel Martínez
Santiago
José Sabogal
The Rubber Trapper
Embrace of the Serpent is a drama, adventure film released in 2015 exploring themes of indigenous, religious conversion, amazon rainforest, based on true story, spirituality, colonisation. Directed by Ciro Guerra, it stars Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Jan Bijvoet. The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.
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