Ibogaine: Rite of Passage (2004)
• September 27th, 2004 • 0h 50min
Documentary
Overview
Ibogaine is a plant extract that stops drug addiction. In this documentary, a 34-year-old heroin addict undergoes ibogaine therapy with Dr Martin Polanco at the Ibogaine Association, a clinic in Rosarito, Mexico. In Gabon, where use of the iboga root is traditional, a Babongo woman's tribe uses the plant to help her recover from a depressive malaise. Director Benjamin De Loenen interviews people formerly addicted to heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine, who share their perspectives about ibogaine treatment.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Moments Like This Never Last
Released on: 2021-08-20
Documentary
Dash Snow rejected a life of privilege to make his own way as an artist on the streets of downtown N...
Coach Zoran and His African Tigers
Released on: 2014-02-14
Documentary
Documentary following Serbian football coach Zoran Đorđević as he helps form South Sudan's first nat...
The Distant Drummer: A Movable Scene
Released on: 1970-01-01
Documentary
Robert Mitchum narrates an anti drug propaganda film.
The Boy Who Flies
Released on: 2013-06-01
Documentary
Following a dream, Canadian paraglider pilot Benjamin Jordan travels to Malawi to teach children the...
Si-Gueriki, Queen Mother
Released on: 2002-03-08
Documentary
Si-Gueriki is the story of the confrontation of a young man with his history, his roots and culture.
Refuge(e)
Released on: 2019-03-14
Documentary
Refuge(e) traces the incredible journey of two refugees, Alpha and Zeferino. Each fled violent threa...
Machanic Manyeruke: The Life of Zimbabwe's Gospel Music Legend
Released on: 2020-11-17
Documentary
Machanic Manyeruke is the founder of gospel music in Zimbabwe—though, his influence reaches far beyo...
The Panafrican Festival in Algiers
Released on: 1969-01-01
Documentary, Music
Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held ...
When We Were Kings
Released on: 1996-10-25
Documentary, TV Movie, History, Music
It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...
Io sono nata viaggiando
Released on: 2013-11-11
Documentary
A journey back through Dacia Maraini's and her trips around the world with her close friends cinema ...
Looking for Johnny
Released on: 2014-06-01
Documentary
Johnny Thunders was the legendary hard-living rock'n'roll guitarist who inspired glam-metal, punk an...
Last Fast Ride: The Life, Love and Death of a Punk Goddess
Released on: 2011-03-10
Documentary, Music
Henry Rollins narrates Lilly Scourtis Ayers' no-holds-barred profile of volatile Bay Area punk legen...
Iboga Nights
Released on: 2014-02-26
Documentary
Once again, David Graham Scott examines how some addicts use the plant medicine iboga to detox rapid...
White Man with Black Bread
Released on: 2007-01-13
Documentary
Christof Wackernagel, best known in Germany as an actor and former member of the Red Army Faction ("...
L'Algérie au travail
Released on: 1946-06-02
Documentary
This film is devoted to Algeria's vast equipment plan which has fostered the development of the port...
Song from the Forest
Released on: 2014-09-11
Documentary
25 years ago, Louis Sarno, an American, heard a song on the radio and followed its melody into the C...
N/um Tchai: The Ceremonial Dance of the !Kung Bushmen
Released on: 1969-01-01
Documentary
Tchai is the word used by Ju/'hoansi to describe getting together to dance and sing; n/um can be tra...
Huxley on Huxley
Released on: 2009-03-17
Documentary
Italian-born Laura Huxley, a teenage violin virtuoso, played for European royalty and made her Ameri...
Memory Books
Released on: 2008-05-01
Documentary
In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...