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Artist's Choice Screening: Embrace of the Serpent
Duration: 2h 05m
Dates: Sun 26 Jul 2026 15:00
Selected by Adrián Balseca as one of his Artist's Choice Screenings for In the Forest Ruins
Embrace of the Serpent is a stunning black and white odyssey that garnered universal acclaim and won several awards upon its release a decade ago and was Colombia’s first nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars. Among its fans was Mark Kermode who said he was “utterly mesmerized, captivated and transported” by the film.
The film tells the epic story of the first contact and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists who, 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.
Embrace the Serpent. Image Courtesy of Peccadillo Pictures
Embrace the Serpent still. Image courtesy of Peccadillo Pictures
Embrace the Serpent film still. Image Courtesy of Peccadillo Pictures
Embrace the Serpent. Image Courtesy of Peccadillo Pictures
Embrace the Serpent still. Image courtesy of Peccadillo Pictures
Embrace the Serpent film still. Image Courtesy of Peccadillo Pictures
Embrace the Serpent. Image Courtesy of Peccadillo Pictures
Embrace the Serpent still. Image courtesy of Peccadillo Pictures
Embrace the Serpent film still. Image Courtesy of Peccadillo Pictures
