‘Birds of Passage’ Trailer: ‘Embrace Of The Serpent’s Ciro Guerra Tackles The Drug Trade

Colombian writer/director Ciro Guerra is a wunderkind and made his first film, 2004’s “Wandering Shadows” at the ripe old age of 23.

While not the most well-known filmmaker internationally, at least not compared to the auteurs consistently hitting Cannes and overseas festivals, but he’s been in the Un Certain Regard and Directors’ Fortnight sections so far and His 2015 breakthrough film “Embrace Of The Serpent” was the first Colombian film ever to be nominated for a Best Foreign Language Oscar.

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