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 for a specialist EXTENDED INTRODUCTION hosted by Gwen Burnyeat, PHD candidate at UCL & producer of the award-winning documentary “Chocolate of Peace” (2016). She is a member of Embrace Dialogue, a transnational organisation that supports peacebuilding in Colombia.  Birds’ Eye View’s director-at-large, Mia Bays (an Oscar winning producer and agitator with 30 years’ experience in film).

The screening will be followed by live painting from Colombian artist VANE MG– the first artist in the world to have painted inside the walls of Kew Gardens, in the Curzon Soho bar. Accompanied by a LatAm DJ set from DJ Miche.