Luigi Sciamanna
2021
Embrace of the Serpent
Ciro Guerra
Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolivar
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.
Embrace of the Serpent
Reverón
Diego Rísquez
Sheila Monterola, Luis Fernández
It is a love story that takes place between 1924 and 1954 on the shore of the Caribbean Seawhere we discover the universe of the great Venezuelan artist Armando Reveron, his relationship with his muse Juanita and inseparable companion, the friends who frequent the building andrecreation of the objects that make up his world, his obsession with tropical light that blinds. We will see the development of his mental illness and the universe playful, emotional and painful inthis magical space called The Castillete.
Reverón
El Destetado
Héctor Silva Núñez
Luigi Sciamanna, Alberto González
Jairo, who was born without nipples, is isolated from both the customs of his people and social norms. Distanced from the customs of his people, he explores in the city a male ideal to belong to.
The Foreign Body
Secreto de Confesión
Henry Rivero
Juan Pablo Raba, Marlon Moreno
A homicide detective traumatized by the death of his father has to investigate a series of strange murders, while the hit man responsible for them confesses to a priest that he will be his next victim.
Secreto de Confesión
Zamora, tierra y hombres libres
Román Chalbaud
Alexander Solórzano, Erick Ekvall
Venezuela, the mid-nineteenth century. The polarization between liberals and conservatives marked the political agenda. Inequalities of colonial society kept farmers and slaves under the yoke of the oligarchy. Ezequiel Zamora mobilized by deep ideals of liberty is leading a fight to try to erase social inequalities and distribute land equitably.
Zamora, tierra y hombres libres