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Berlin International Film Festival · 2016

Berlin International Film Festival 2016

Native - Indigenous Cinema

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2 films · 1 review

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Embrace Of The Serpent (El Abrazo De La Serpiente)

Review preview for Embrace Of The Serpent

Structurally illustrates how the indigenous people don't see time as being a chronological straight line but as multiple realities existing simultaneously.

Rebecca Naughten · 3.5 out of 5
The story of the relationship between an Amazonian shaman and two scientists who, decades apart, search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.

(Country: Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina; Year: 2015; Director: Ciro Guerra; Writer: Ciro Guerra, Jacques Toulemonde Vidal; Stars: Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolivar, Brionne Davis, Yauenkü Miguee, Nicolás Cancino, Luigi Sciamanna)

Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge And Climate Change

A documentary about traditional Inuit ideas and traditions of monitoring the shifting climate.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2010; Director: Ian Mauro, Zacharias Kunuk)