With The Orchard handling North American distribution, “Birds of Passage,” Colombian’s official Oscar® entry for Best Foreign Language Film, which also has a strong shot at winning, is set to hit cinemas on February 13, 2019.

The review also draws comparisons to John Ford, Sergio Leone, Nicolas Roeg, and Zhang Yimou, and much like those four greats, Guerra knows how to shoot a landscape, especially when he’s working with “I Am Not a Witch” cinematographer David Gallego. This pairing helped ‘Embrace’ land an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, so it only figures that their next project was chosen as Colombia’s latest submission for the same honor. Here’s a synopsis for the film:

During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.



With a script was penned by Maria Camila Arias and ‘Embrace’ co-writer Jacques Toulemonde Vidal, the film stars Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, and Natalia Reyes, the last whom also has a role lined up for the upcoming “Terminator” reboot.