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1) Uncle Poison
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
EspaƱol
Description
A healer on healing, medicine & religion...Filmed in the modern city of Caracas, capitol of Venezuela, Uncle Poison is an intimate portrait of a traditional faith healer, set against the backdrop of his community's Easter celebrations. Every day Benito Reyes receives people at his house looking for all sorts of cures.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Tibetan
Description
Fate of the Lhapa is a feature-length documentary about the last three Tibetan shamans (lhapas) living in a Tibetan refugee camp in Nepal. With no other descendants to carry on their healing practices and a younger generation attending schools, acculturating, and modernizing, these "sucking doctors" are practicing an endangered tradition.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This is a documentary, which not only shows the ancient traditional art form of healing but also tries to capture the essence of being a traditional healer in an ever-changing environment. Traditional healers are shown collecting, preparing and administering herbal remedies that they have passed down from one generation to the next.
Author
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The role of Ngangkari, Traditional Healer, still plays a vital role in the health and well-being of the Anungu people of Central Australia. Yet only two Ngangkari are employed in full-time positions. This film introduces these two renowned Ngangkari specialists.
7) Thunderbolt
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A story from the burgeoning video industry of Nigeria combines melodrama and issues of ethnicity, gender, culture and identity in post-colonial Africa. Thunderbolt will come as a bolt out of the blue to most Americans, even aficionados of African cinema. It is one of the best examples of the little-known but burgeoning video industry of Nigeria. Most films in this Library of African Cinema catalog ironically are seen more in the West than in Africa...
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