BIRDS OF PASSAGE is the ninth film in Birds’ Eye View’s ‘Reclaim The Frame’ project, backed by the British Film Institute; a mission to bring ever-greater audiences to films by women to build a more balanced film future and offer cinema fans wider perspectives of the world.

 

Directed by

Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra

Written by

Maria Camila Aria & Jacques Toulemonde Vidal

Cast:

Carmiña Martínez, Natalia Reyes, José Acosta

Colombia

125 minutes

2019

Curzon Artificial Eye

 

From the filmmakers behind the Oscar-nominated EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT
comes their latest epic, BIRDS OF PASSAGE, a tale about indigenous traditions
and the corrupting forces of wealth and power, set against the backdrop of the Colombian marijuana boom of the 1970s.

A film of both gangsters and spirits, corruption and fratricidal war, this is a thrilling
depiction of the origins of the drug trade told through the story of an indigenous
Wayuu family’s downfall when greed, passion and honour collide, putting their lives, culture and ancestral traditions at stake.

 

REVIEWS

★★★★

“An imaginative reworking of the traditional gangster drama”

Total Film

★★★★

“Mesmerising and transporting, a drugs epic like no other”

Time Out

 

Join us for a for a specialist EXTENDED INTRODUCTION hosted by Parvati Nair, Professor of Hispanic, Cultural and Migration Studies at Queen Mary University of London and Birds’ Eye View’s director-at-large, Mia Bays (an Oscar winning producer and agitator with 30 years’ experience in film).