Ciro Guerra won the Films in Progress Award in 2013 for his first film, La sombra del caminante (The Wandering Shadow), which competed in New Directors at San Sebastian in 2004. This was followed by Los viajes del viento (The Wind Journeys, 2009) and El abrazo de la serpiente (Embrace of the Serpent), premiered, respectively, in Un Certain Regard and the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at the Cannes Festival. Both competed in Horizontes Latinos at San Sebastian and El abrazo de la serpiente became the first Colombian film to be nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. With Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage, 2018), he opened the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at Cannes and harvested more than 30 awards worldwide. Waiting for the Barbarians, his first film in English, competed at the 2019 Venice Festival.
Festival de San Sebastián
