Director
66 years old
Luis Alberto Lamata
Caracas, Venezuela
Venezuelan filmmaker born in Caracas in 1959. Nominated for the Goya, he has received awards in Havana, Biarritz, Cartagena, Sochi, Trieste, Berlin, San Sebastián, Sundance, and Montreal. In Venezuela, he has won the Premio Nacional de Cine, municipal award, critics’ award,... Read full bio →
Jericó
Luis Alberto Lamata
1991
1h 30m
In 16th-century Spanish America, a Dominican friar named Santiago survives a brutal expedition and is absorbed into a Carib tribe. When he flees tribal conflict only to be captured by Spanish forces accused of heresy, he is forced to confront the clash between his ideals and the violence of conquest.
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