Daily News & Analysis | Cannes 2015: 'Embrace of the Serpent' tops Directors' Fortnight awards Daily News & Analysis The movie was inspired by the journals of two explorers who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century: the German Theodor Koch-Grunberg and the American Richard Evans Schultes. Colombian director Ciro Guerra's Embrace of the ... 'Embrace of the Serpent' Tops Directors' Fortnight Awards at Cannes ?Embrace of the Serpent? among Cannes Directors' Fortnight winners Cannes: 'Embrace of the Serpent' Tops Directors' Fortnight Awards |