Lost in the Jungle
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| Disney+ | Release Date (Streaming): September 12, 2025 |
Summary:
Four Indigenous siblings survived 40 days in Colombia's jungle after a plane crash. The film shows their story through footage, recreations, and animation, highlighting Indigenous-military cooperation and traditional knowledge.
Genre(s):
Documentary
Runtime:
96 min
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The Playlist
Sep 11, 2025
Ultimately, the film is not only about children who refused to surrender, but also about a country that, for a brief moment, managed to put aside divisions in service of something greater. Like the best of Vasarhelyi and Chin’s work, it transforms an extraordinary true story into something more universal: a tale of endurance, release, and the desperate search for light.
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Sep 12, 2025
Lost in the Jungle can’t really explain how the children survived, or how, ultimately, they were rescued. Miracles and mysteries happen in the jungle. What the film does elucidate, in rich and tense storytelling, is that no headline story like this is ever as simple as it seems on the surface.
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Sep 11, 2025
IndieWire
Sep 11, 2025
If there’s any issue with “Lost in the Jungle,” it might be that there’s too little of it. At 90 minutes, the film is quick and efficient, but it leaves little time to explore more about the collaboration between these two search parties, or the unsteady relationship between the region’s indigenous communities and the narco-guerrilla units ruling over them.
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