Embrace of the Serpent - Lapinlahti Film Festival 2026

EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT tells 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, become the first men to travel the Northwest Amazon in search of ancestral knowledge. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, German ethnologist Theodor Koch-Grunberg and American botanist Richard Evans Schultes.

Director: Ciro Guerra
Starring: Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Yauenkü Miguee, Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis
Age restriction: 16
Duration: 125 min
Language: spanish
Subtitles: english
Production countries: Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina
Year: 2015

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Garden Courtyard Screening Tent

The Garden Courtyard screening tent is dark and features elevated seating. The tent retains heat well, so please remember to stay hydrated and bring hearing protection if needed.

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