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Ciro Guerra

Born February 6, 1981 · Río de Oro, Colombia (age 45)

Ciro Guerra (born 6 February 1981) is a Colombian film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his 2015 film Embrace of the Serpent, which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards, and for The Wind Journeys, selected as the Colombian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ciro Guerra,…

Known For

Waiting for the Barbarians

Waiting for the Barbarians · 2020

Waiting for the Barbarians

MovieDramaHistory

At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.

Embrace of the Serpent

Embrace of the Serpent · 2015

Embrace of the Serpent

MovieDramaAdventure

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.

Birds of Passage

Birds of Passage · 2018

Birds of Passage

MovieDramaCrime

During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.

Wandering Shadows

Wandering Shadows · 2004

Wandering Shadows

MovieComedyDrama

Two men meet in downtown Bogotá: one is missing a leg, the other is a "silletero", a man who carries people around for money. Each character bears the burden of a bitter past life.

The Wind Journeys

The Wind Journeys · 2009

The Wind Journeys

MovieDramaMusic

After his wife's death, a vallenato singer from Majagual, Sucre, decides to quit music and return his allegedly cursed accordion to his master. He is joined by Fermín Morales, a teenage boy who admires him and wishes to follow his footsteps. Together, they start a journey throughout several towns in Northern Colombia to Taroa, in La Guajira desert, where the singer's master supposedly lives.

Green Frontier

Green Frontier · 2019

SeriesCrimeMystery

When a young Bogotá-based detective gets drawn into the jungle to investigate four femicides, she uncovers magic, an evil plot and her own true origins.

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Waiting for the Barbarians

Waiting for the Barbarians · 2020

Waiting for the Barbarians

MovieDramaHistory

At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.

Director

Embrace of the Serpent

Embrace of the Serpent · 2015

Embrace of the Serpent

MovieDramaAdventure

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.

Director

Birds of Passage

Birds of Passage · 2018

Birds of Passage

MovieDramaCrime

During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.

Director

Wandering Shadows

Wandering Shadows · 2004

Wandering Shadows

MovieComedyDrama

Two men meet in downtown Bogotá: one is missing a leg, the other is a "silletero", a man who carries people around for money. Each character bears the burden of a bitter past life.

Director

The Wind Journeys

The Wind Journeys · 2009

The Wind Journeys

MovieDramaMusic

After his wife's death, a vallenato singer from Majagual, Sucre, decides to quit music and return his allegedly cursed accordion to his master. He is joined by Fermín Morales, a teenage boy who admires him and wishes to follow his footsteps. Together, they start a journey throughout several towns in Northern Colombia to Taroa, in La Guajira desert, where the singer's master supposedly lives.

Director

Green Frontier

Green Frontier · 2019

SeriesCrimeMystery

When a young Bogotá-based detective gets drawn into the jungle to investigate four femicides, she uncovers magic, an evil plot and her own true origins.

Director