"Embrace of the Serpent", an Amazonian sight at the Oscars

LOS ÁNGELES (AP) — In a scene from "Embrace of the Serpent," a native Amazonian called Karamakate tells the white explorer he's forging through the jungle to feel his surroundings with all of his senses.

In 2005, the South American country celebrated the nod to Colombian actress Catalina Sandino for her leading role in "Maria Full of Grace," but it was largely a U.S. production.

[...] of the results, the nomination has opened doors to the movie, which was re-released in Colombia and has been shown in Asian and European countries and now in the United States, with English subtitles.

The nomination is also opening doors for Guerra, who has signed to direct the English-language dystopian adventure "The Detainee," described as a "Hunger Games" for adults.

"Embrace of the Serpent" tells the story through Karamakate, the last survivor of his tribe, who as a young man, led a German explorer through the Colombian jungle and four decades later, in the twilight of his life, does the same for an American explorer.

Inspired by the diaries of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon — German ethnologist Theodor Koch-Grunberg and American biologist Richard Evan Schultes — the film shows the philosophical contrast between the Western world and the native's concept of harmony.