The film adaptation betrays the universal welcoming spirit as opposed to fear of weakened by the rigid dictates of US film industry. (Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Marina fearful and Annamaria Stramondo- Photos are published courtesy of ASAC Biennale) Presented in competition at the 76th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Waiting for the Barbarians is the last work of the Colombian filmmaker Ciro Guerra. His first production with an international flavor, Waiting for the Barbarians depicts the story of a magistrate, administrator of a frontier outpost on the borders of an empire