Embrace of the Serpent

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 | 2 h 5 min