The pink indian against the invisible beast: Noel Nutels' battle (2020)

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.

누구보다 건강하고 씩씩했던 하버드 박사과정 학생. 어느 날 찾아온 만성피로증후군으로 병상에 누워 지내는 상황이 되자, 용기 있게 자신의 투병 과정을 카메라에 담는다.

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...

활화산이 숨을 쉬고 별빛이 아름다운 남태평양 바누아투의 Tanna 섬, 자신이 진정으로 사랑하는 남자 Dain과 부족의 미래가 걸린 정약 결혼 사이에서 선택해야하는 Wawa의 운명은 어떻게 될 것인가? 실화를 기반으로 한 작품으로 사람의 손이 닿지 않은 자연의 순수함과 그 속에서 피어난 숭고한 사랑을 이야기한다.

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.

Are the medicines and every day products we use putting us at risk RESISTANCE sheds light on the global crisis of antibiotic resistance and uncovers how our extensive use of bacteria-killing antibiotics has created a new kind of disease, resistant to the medicines created to destroy it.

Inside the dramatic search for a cure to ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). 17 million people around the world suffer from what ME/CFS has been known as a mystery illness, delegated to the psychological realm, until now. A scientist in the only neuro immune institute in the world may have come up with the answer. An important human drama, plays out on the quest for the truth.

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

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.

Diabetes. Prostate cancer. Alcoholism. Parkinson's diseases. Just a handful of many common illnesses that Western medicine has been inadequate in curing or treating. Witness the story of eight brave souls as they leave the developed world behind in search of deeper answers. Living in seclusion for one month in the heart of the Amazon jungle, these men and women take part in the powerful healing practices of Peru's indigenous medicine men, working with centuries-old plant remedies and spiritual disciplines. In their most desperate hour, these patients are forced to confront not only their physical ailments, but their own spiritual and psychological barriers in the process. Five will return with real results, two will return disappointed, and one won't come back at all.

Documentary written and presented by scientist Richard Dawkins, in which he seeks to expose "those areas of belief that exist without scientific proof, yet manage to hold the nation under their spell", including mediumship, psychokinesis, acupuncture, and other forms of alternative medicine.

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.

Through interviews with leading psychologists and scientists, Neurons to Nirvana explores the history of four powerful psychedelic substances (LSD, Psilocybin, MDMA and Ayahuasca) and their previously established medicinal potential. Strictly focusing on the science and medicinal properties of these drugs, Neurons to Nirvana looks into why our society has created such a social and political bias against even allowing research to continue the exploration of any possible positive effects they can present in treating some of today's most challenging afflictions.

Benito Arévalo is an onaya: a traditional healer in a Shipibo-Konibo community in Peruvian Amazonia. He explains something of the onaya tradition, and how he came to drink the plant medicine ayahuasca under his father's tutelage. Arévalo leads an ayahuasca ceremony for Westerners, and shares with us something of his understanding of the plants and the onaya tradition.

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?

Men and women of the !Kung people in Ojokhoe, Namibia perform healing dances by firelight. First we see men perform the giraffe dance, and then women perform the !gwa dance.

The UN General Assembly regards antibiotic-resistance as a "global and most urgent threat". The WHO alarms that we could fall back into a "post-antibiotic age". The film tells us how we got there: It is a story about how negligence, greed, and short-sightedness have rendered the lifesaving effects of antibiotics powerless. It is a science-thriller about disillusioned, fighting doctors, rebellious scientists, patients wrestling with life-threatening diseases and diplomats searching for a global solution. They all are Resistance Fighters.

TOKYO Ainu features the Ainu, an indigenous people of Japan, living in Greater Tokyo (Tokyo and its surrounding areas), who are and actively in promoting their traditional culture in a metropolitan environment away from their traditional homeland, Hokkaido. Shedding a common assumption that all Ainu live in Hokkaido, the film captures the feelings, thoughts and aspirations of Ainu people that who try to follow the Ainu way no matter where they live.