In a hypnotic opening dance between two would-be lovers, the new film Birds of Passage immediately establishes that it is in no way a typical Colombian drug-war epic. A young woman named Zaida ...

“Birds of Passage” starts in 1968 and encompasses a dozen years of violent upheaval in the northern Colombian desert, chronicling the rise and fall of a drug dealer and his family; the ...

Mark Hughes is an entertainment writer covering cinema and genre TV. On the box office front, Birds of Passage is receiving a limited North American release after amassing about $781,000+ in ...

The team behind the Oscar-nominated Colombian film Embrace of the Serpent unveiled their latest feature, 'Birds of Passage,' in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. By Jordan Mintzer A rare bird ...

“Birds of Passage” follows the tragic unfolding of events surrounding Rapayet (José Acosta), an ambitious member of the Wayúu tribe in Northern Colombia who becomes ensnared in an escalating ...

"Birds of Passage" directors Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra (The Orchard/Mateo Contreras) Directors Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, whose 2015 film "Embrace of the Serpent" was nominated for ...

“Birds of Passage,” Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra’s follow-up to their astonishing, hallucinatory, Oscar-nominated “Embrace of the Serpent,” earns the label in a more honest and ...

Ciro Guerra, whose “Embrace of the Serpent” was nominated for the Oscar in 2016, co-directed with his ex-wife Cristina Gallego for the first time in “Birds of Passage.” The film tells the ...

Colonialism plays a part in “Birds of Passage,” which takes place in the La Guajira desert of northernmost Colombia, close to the Venezuelan border. (The dialogue, with English subtitles ...

This story on “Birds of Passage” first appeared in the Foreign Language issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine. Ciro Guerra, whose “Embrace of the Serpent” was nominated for the Oscar in 2016 ...