The Medicine of Forgiveness (2001)
• January 1st, 2001 • 0h 22min
Documentary
Overview
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.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Mass-market retailing: The end of a system?
Released on: 2021-09-30
Documentary, TV Movie
The supermarket chains used to seem unbeatable, capturing the lion’s share of the grocery market. Bu...
Our Indians
Released on: 1995-01-16
Documentary
Yndio do Brasil is a collage of hundreds of Brazilian films and films from other countries - feature...
LaDonna Harris: Indian 101
Released on: 2014-03-29
Documentary
A documentary film about Comanche activist LaDonna Harris, who led an extensive life of Native polit...
Nowhere Land
Released on: 2015-10-17
Documentary
Documentary about filmmaker Bonnie Ammaaq's memories of life on Baffin Island, where her family move...
Touching the Void
Released on: 2003-09-05
Documentary, Action, Adventure, Drama
The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m ...
Woven Songs of the Amazon
Released on: 2007-01-01
Documentary
The Shipibo-Konibo people of Peruvian Amazon decorate their pottery, jewelry, textiles, and body art...
Our People Will Be Healed
Released on: 2017-09-07
Documentary
Legendary documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin provides a glimpse of what action-driven decoloniza...
The Invention of the Other
Released on: 2022-11-19
Documentary
In 2019, the Brazilian government coordinates the largest and riskiest expedition of the last decade...
Ajishama, The White Ibis
Released on: 2003-01-01
Documentary
Shot in Venezuela over a 30-year period, this documentary depicts the life and work of José Maria Ko...
The Shaman & Ayahuasca: Journeys to Sacred Realms
Released on: 2010-01-01
Documentary
Filmed in the jungles of Peru, shaman Don Jose Campos introduces the practices and benefits of Ayahu...
Columbus Didn't Discover Us
Released on: 1992-05-16
Documentary
The historic gathering of three hundred indigenous activists from North, South and Central America w...
Timuti
Released on: 2012-01-01
Documentary
In Inukjuak, an Inuit community in the Eastern Arctic, a baby boy has come into the world and they c...
Motherland Memories
Released on: 2022-11-19
Documentary
Ompung Putra Boru, a sixties indigenous Batak woman from Humbang Hasundutan, North Sumatra, retraces...
Le Mystère des rivières volantes d'Amazonie
Released on: 2022-11-12
Documentary
Discovered about twenty years ago, the immense masses of water vapor that fly over the Amazon, calle...
Reclamation: The Rise at Standing Rock
Released on:
Documentary
Nominated for an Emmy® Award in 2021 for best non fiction special. Winner of 35 grand jury awards. ...
Maximón: Devil or Saint
Released on: 2014-02-06
Documentary
MAXIMÓN - Devil or Saint is a documentary about the controversial Maya deity, also known as San Simo...
The Call of Fayu Ujmu
Released on: 2002-01-01
Documentary, Drama
A 13-year-old Indian boy is found unconscious after being attacked in the jungle by the evil spirit ...
Land der Bitterkeit und des Stolzes
Released on: 1982-09-06
Documentary
A polemic against Werner Herzog and the making of "Fitzcarraldo", exploring the question of the film...
Tawai: A Voice from the Forest
Released on: 2017-09-29
Documentary
Explorer Bruce Parry visits nomadic tribes in Borneo and the Amazon in hope to better understand hum...
Piripkura
Released on: 2018-03-01
Documentary
The last two surviving members of the Piripkura people, a nomadic tribe in the Mato Grosso region of...