The Medicine of Forgiveness (2001)

건축 기사인 빌 마캄은 아마존댐 건설 중 정글에서 일곱살난 아들 토미를 잃어버리고 고독한 탐색 작업을 한다. 10년간의 추적 끝에 토미의 실종이 인디오와 관계있음을 알게 된 그는 아마존을 탐색하다 어느 큰 폭포앞에 이르른다. 그 때 갑자기 기분 나쁜 소리가 들려오고 인디오들이 빌을 습격하기 시작하지만, 어디선가 날아온 화살이 그를 구한다.

This documentary examines ayahuasca shamanism near Iquitos (a metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon), and the tourism it has attracted. The filmmakers talk with two ayahuasqueros, Percy Garcia and Ron Wheelock, as well as ayuahuasca tourists and local people connected with the ayahuasca industry.

1560년, 스페인 원정대는 아마존 강 기슭에 있다는 황금의 도시 엘도라도를 향해 모험을 나선다. 아무도 가보지 않은 전설의 땅으로 가는 길이 험난해지자 피사로 장군은 우루수아를 대장으로 임명하고, 40명의 선발대를 뗏목에 태워 강으로 먼저 보낸다. 원정대와 선발대가 약속한 사전 조사 기간은 일주일, 하지만 엘도라도에 대한 강한 정복욕에 사로잡힌 아귀레는 대장 우루수아를 가두고 반란을 일으킨다. 배고픔과 질병, 식인종들의 습격 속에서 작은 뗏목은 커다란 광기에 휩싸이는데...

Plant Explorer Richard Evans Schultes was a real life Indiana Jones whose discoveries of hallucinogenic plants laid the foundation for the psychedelic sixties. Now in this two hour History Channel TV Special, his former student Wade Davis, follows in his footsteps to experience the discoveries that Schultes brought to the western world. Shot around the planet, from Canada to the Amazon, we experience rarely seen native hallucinogenic ceremonies and find out the true events leading up to the Psychedelic Sixties. Featuring author/adventurer Wade Davis ("Serpent and the Rainbow"), Dr. Andrew Weil, the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and many others, this program tells the story of the discovery of peyote, magic mushrooms and beyond: one man's little known quest to classify the Plants of the Gods. Richard Evans Schultes revolutionized science and spawned another revolution he never imagined.

1909년의 콜롬비아의 아마존. 독일 민속학자이자 여행가인 테오도어는 신비한 치유의 힘을 가진 풀 야크루나를 찾기 위해 원주민 무당인 카라마카테와 길을 떠난다. 한편 1940년대 같은 지역에서 미국인 식물학자인 에반스도 야크루나를 찾기 위해 카라마카테를 고용한다. 언어와 관습, 문화가 다른 백인과 원주민의 조우는 몰이해와 갈등, 때로는 폭력으로 이어진다. 2009년 칸영화제 주목할만한시선 부문에서 선보인 이후 발표한 치로 게라의 세 번째 장편 은 실존인물인 테오도어 코흐-그룬베르크와 리차드 에반스 슐츠의 여행기에서 영감을 받았다. 서로 다른 시간의 두 가지 이야기가 병치되는 독특한 서사 구조 안에서 백인 여행가와 원주민 무당의 조우는 언어, 관습, 문화의 차이로 야기되는 끝없는 긴장으로 이어지며, 이는 유럽 식민주의의 폭력적 본성을 드러낸다. 흑백으로 촬영된 아마존의 자연경관은 인간, 자연 그리고 권력의 그물이 한 치의 미화도 없이 드러나는 식민의 맨 얼굴처럼 다가온다.

In this tense and immersive tour de force, audiences are taken directly into the line of fire between powerful, opposing Peruvian leaders who will stop at nothing to keep their respective goals intact. On the one side is President Alan Garcia, who, eager to enter the world stage, begins aggressively extracting oil, minerals, and gas from untouched indigenous Amazonian land. He is quickly met with fierce opposition from indigenous leader Alberto Pizango, whose impassioned speeches against Garcia’s destructive actions prove a powerful rallying cry to throngs of his supporters. When Garcia continues to ignore their pleas, a tense war of words erupts into deadly violence.

Harry Steele (Charlton Heston) is a tourist guide determined to make his fortune by finding the Sunburst, an Inca treasure.

Herlinda Augustin is a Shipibo healer who lives with her family in Peruvian Amazonia. Will she and other healers be able to maintain their ancient tradition despite Western encroachment?

Four Westerners with various ailments travel to Peruvian Amazonia to drink ayahuasca, a traditional medicine renowned for its healing powers.

Filmed in the jungles of Peru, shaman Don Jose Campos introduces the practices and benefits of Ayahuasca, the psychoactive plant brew that has been used for healing and visionary journeys by Amazonian shamans for at least a thousand years.

On a quest for emotional healing and spiritual awakening, a naturopathic doctor and an accountant join others in the Peruvian Amazon to drink a psychedelic brew called ayahuasca.

Three people fly from Chile and Spain to Iquitos, Peru to experience the magic of the sacred plant ayahuasca.

Explorer Bruce Parry visits nomadic tribes in Borneo and the Amazon in hope to better understand humanity's changing relationship with the world around us.

For ancient Mayans, cocoa was as good as gold. For subsistence farmer Eladio Pop, his cocoa crops are the only riches he has to support his wife and 15 children. As he wields his machete with ease, slicing a path to his cocoa trees, the small jungle plot he cultivates in southern Belize remains pristine and wild. His dreams for his children to inherit the land and the traditions of their Mayan ancestors present a familiar challenge. The kids feel their father's philosophies don't fit into a global economy, so they're charting their own course. Rohan Fernando's direction tenderly displays a generational shift, causalities of progress in modern times and a man valiantly protecting an endangered culture. Breathtaking vistas of lush rainforests contrast with the urban dystopia that pulled Pop’s children away from him. Will one child return to carry on a waning way of life

In Peruvian Amazonia, for the first time in many years, a Shipibo–Konibo community prepare to perform the Aneshiati ceremony: a time of dance, song, festive clothing, and drink—including the sacred tea ayahuasca.

A portrait of Peruvian curandero Agustin Rivas-Vazques, revealed primarily through stationary-camera interviews.

SHAMANS OF THE AMAZON is a personal account of filmmaker Dean Jefferys as he returns to the Amazon with his partner and one year old daughter. They journey deep into the Ecuadorian rainforest to learn about and experience the ancient ayahuasca healing ceremony. The film brings to the viewer an intimate and fascinating look at the shamans of the Amazon, and the life that is threatened by ecological destruction.

Shipibo healer Ricardo Amaringo describes how he prepares, teaches, and shares the plant medicine ayahuasca. Olivia and Julian Arévalo sing examples of icaros (healing songs) in the Shipibo language.

After years of suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, six US veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan travel to Peru on a quest for healing. With the help and guidance of three brothers who are traditional healers, they take ayahuasca and other plant medicines during a 10-day retreat in the Amazon rainforest.

The secrets about unlocking the mysteries of consciousness by plant-drugs. The related chances and risks involved in this shamanism.