Filter By Subjects
Colombia Drama Families Colombia Drama Friendship Colombia Amazonas (Department) Drama Karamakate Drama Koch-Grünberg, Theodor 1872-1924 Drama Nineteen seventies Drama Schultes, Richard Evans Drama Scientists Colombia Amazonas (Department) Drama Shamans Colombia Amazonas (Department) Drama Violence DramaFilter By Series
Film Movement series ; v. 8, film 4Filter By Subjects
Colombia Drama Families Colombia Drama Friendship Colombia Amazonas (Department) Drama Karamakate Drama Koch-Grünberg, Theodor 1872-1924 Drama Nineteen seventies Drama Schultes, Richard Evans Drama Scientists Colombia Amazonas (Department) Drama Shamans Colombia Amazonas (Department) Drama Violence DramaFilter By Series
Film Movement series ; v. 8, film 4Summary: For most of his life, Ignacio Carrillo traveled the villages of northern Colombia, playing traditional songs on his accordion, a legendary instrument said to have once belonged to the devil. He eventually married and settled in a small town, leaving the nomadic life behind. But after the traumatic death of his wife, he vows never to play again, and embarks on one last journey to return the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WINSummary: The origins of the Colombian drug trade, as seen through eyes of an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion and honor collide, a fratricidal war breaks out and puts their lives, culture, and ancestral traditions at stake.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BIRSummary: The film centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016