Doctor Omega
Member: Rank 10
Birds of Passage
Director: Ciro Guerra (“Embrace of the Serpent”)
Cast: Unknown
Details: Described as Ciro Guerra’s most ambitious film to date, a big call after the universally adored “Embrace of the Serpent,” “Birds of Passage” is dubbed a film noir, a western and a Greek tragedy all blended together. Employing thousands of extras, the Maria Camila Arias and Jacques Toulemonde-penned film was one of the biggest productions in Latin America in years when it was filmed. It was so big Guerra brought on his ‘Embrace’ editor Cristina Gallego to co-direct.
Set in Colombia in the 1970s, the demand for marijuana quickly turns farmers into seasoned businessmen. A Wayuu indigenous family living in the Guajira desert takes an unexpected leading role in this new drug trade and discovers the perks of wealth and power and the violence and tragedy inexorably linked with it.