In “Lost in the Jungle,” Oscar winners Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi (“Free Solo”) teamed with Colombian filmmaker Juan Camilo Cruz to tell the story of four Indigenous siblings, aged 13, 9, 5 and 11 months who managed to stay alive for 40 days in remote part of the Colombian rainforest after the Cessna aircraft they were on crashed and killed their mother, Magdalena Mucutuy, and the plane’s pilot.
The film, which premiered last month at the Telluride Film Festival, is one of two 2025 Nat Geo documentaries directed by Chin and Vasarhelyi. They also have “Love + War,” about combat photographer Lynsey Addario, which is currently screening at
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