Embrace of the Serpent

Embrace of the Serpent 2015

7.70

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.

2015

La Fraternidad del desierto

La Fraternidad del desierto 2016

1

Documentary about the debate of the Little Brothers of the Gospel in the Suriyaco desert: to participate or not in revolutionary political action. The discussion is led by the Uruguayan philosopher Julio Saquero and the Italian priest Arturo Paoli.

2016

Liniers, el trazo simple de las cosas

Liniers, el trazo simple de las cosas 2010

6.50

Winter 2007. Two artists from Argentina receive a grant to develop their work in Montreal (Canada). The only catch? They have to share an apartment. In this way filmmaker Franca González and cartoonist Ricardo Siri Liniers come to know each other. From the moment González becomes the roommate of Liniers, a friendship emerges between them and she makes him the proposal of doing a documentary about him. The film starts with an argument to get Liniers permission to chase him with videocameras and ends up becoming one of the most tender portraits ever done of the artist, reflecting the transcendence that ensues from the simple line of his drawings.

2010