A 2015 Spanish adventure drama, Embrace of the Serpent, will be screened at the Bahrain Cinema Club at 7pm tonight.
The film tells two stories 30 years apart, both featuring Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his tribe.
He travels with two scientists, firstly with German ethnologist and explorer Theodore von Martius in 1909 and then with American biologist Richard Evans Schultes in 1940, to look for the rare yakruna, a (fictional) sacred plant.
The movie is inspired by the travel diaries of the scientists. Directed by Ciro Guerra, the film was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
Call 39682323 for details.