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During the Cultural Revolution in China in the late 20th century, ethnic Manchu people were persecuted and forced to give up such cultural traditions as the shaman dance (tiao tchin, meaning "spirit-jumping" or "god's dance"). However, on Changbai Mountain in Northeast China, a farmer named Guan Yunde decided to start designing and building traditional Manchu shaman drums. At age 70, he is one of a minority of ethnic Manchu people in China's Jilin province, and one of the few people keeping the Manchu shamanic tradition alive.
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Anthropologist and filmmaker João Meirinhos travels in Peruvian Amazonia to speak with healers who work with the plant medicine ayahuasca. The journey begins on the outskirts of Puerto Maldonado in southeastern Peru, and winds northward to Pucallpa and Iquitos.
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Excesso. Personalidade despedaçada. O exagero da modernidade rodeia e controla cada segundo do seu dia. A mente deixa de ser privada, é só uma questão de mudar de frequência. Algo acontece e a máscara tomba. Pele carnívora fantasia o quanto vive em falsidade e, como num mau filme, esta experiência é uma metáfora desta efémera, mas eterna, busca, falhada…
