Product Description

2019 Oscar Shortlist-Best Foreign Language Film The origins of the Colombian drug trade, as seen through eyes of an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion and honor collide, a fratricidal war breaks out and puts their lives, culture and ancestral traditions at stake. Official Selection: Toronto Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival.

Review

Birds of Passage earns the label epic for its tale about how the world changes, about how individual actions and the forces of fate work in concert to bring glory and ruin to a hero and his family. Critic's Pick. --The New York Times

Literary elements are skillfully woven into the script by Maria Camila Arias and Jacques Toulemonde, which starts off in a world that may be poor and disadvantaged in many ways but that also has traditions of sustaining simplicity and integrity. The screenwriters way of describing this world s fall from grace due to the lures of money and luxury has the power and inevitability of classic tragedy. It could be Greek or Shakespearean, though it is palpably modern and Colombian. --Roger Ebert.com

A drug epic like you've never seen before...erupts with color. Critics Pick. --Variety