This stunning film, shot in black and white, follows Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman who is the lone survivor of his tribe. Theo, a German explorer, is deathly ill and needs his help finding a sacred healing plant. Karamakate refuses; he has nothing but contempt for the white man whom he blames for the obliteration of his people. But when Theo tells him that he knows where there are surviving members of his tribe, he relents. The film intercuts the shaman as a young man - and now older — as he guides his foreign visitors down the river. Director Ciro Guerra’s masterful film won the Art Cinema Award in the Director’s Fortnight section at Cannes and is Colombia’s submission for the foreign language Oscar.
(Colombia, 2015) 125 minutes
