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 post-screening PANEL DISCUSSION hosted by writer, film critic and Birds’ Eye View Board trustee, Kate Muir (formerly Chief Film Critic at The Times for 7 years) with Criminologist & Sociologist Maria Fotopoulou and Colombian Media & Culture Scholar, Maria Velez Serna.