Ciro Guerra

Ciro Guerra is exactly the sort of filmmaker I find myself rooting for. Born in a small town in Colombia's Cesar Department and trained at the National University of Colombia, he turned a regional, indigenous-rooted vision into work that reached the Academy Awards, with Embrace of the Serpent earning a Best Foreign Language Film nomination. What interests me is his refusal to flatten his stories into a Hollywood template; he films memory, landscape and identity through a distinctly Colombian gaze. Directors like Guerra remind me that the most arresting cinema often comes from the periphery, not the centre.

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Name (English)

Ciro Guerra

Name (Japanese)

シーロ・ゲーラ

Reading

しーろ・げーら

Born

February 6, 1981 (age 45)

Origin

Río de Oro, Cesar Department, Colombia

Occupation

film director / screenwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rooster

University

National University of Colombia

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciro%20Guerra
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2974216

Tags

• Cesar Department
• film director
• screenwriter

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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