The Medicine of Forgiveness
Film
The Medicine of Forgiveness
Peru- Director
- Delia Ackerman
- Year
- 2001
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.
Top cast
Directed by
Delia Ackerman, Alonso del Río
Produced by
Delia Ackerman, Carlos Paz Bordone, Alonso del Río
