FEATURE

An engrossing narco-thriller which deftly balances storytelling tradition with genre conventions of the crime movie and the Western.

-Screen International

This multi-award-winning film at the London, Chicago and Cairo Film Festivals, is a breathtaking journey, told in five chapters, into a native Colombian tribe in the 1960s through to the 80s, who succumb to easy riches by trading in marijuana. The tribe, the Wayuu, is ruled by some powerful women whose warnings about this dangerous activity remains largely unheeded until it is too late. The film’s commentary on the role of women in the spiritual and cultural development of their tribe, as well as the role of the symbolic native bird in the title, is quite remarkable. The same filmmakers made the multi-award-winning monochrome film “Embrace of the Serpent”. The use of colour amidst the sparse countryside, and the occasional outbursts of violence, make this a film you will not soon forget.