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Synopsis
Episodes
A unique series. Twelve indigenous communities in America open their door to medicinal rituals that they have kept secret for centuries. They will share with the world a sacred knowledge, which unlike the modern pharmaceutical industry, does not cure diseases but preserves health. A provocative vision about nature, drugs and what we understand as well-being. Most of the ceremonies and rituals shown in this series had never been filmed before.
List of Episodes (6x52')
1) In the Heights of the Andes Mountains (Bolivia / Perú)
2) In the extreme South of America (Chile)
3) Mesoamerica (Mexico / Guatemala)
4) In the Heart of South America (Brazil / Paraguay)
5) El Dorado (Colombia)
6) North America (USA-Mexico)
List of Episodes (12x26')
1) Sowing a Dream (Perú)
2) Back to Origin (Chile)
3) The perfect Balance (Guatemala)
4) The Handover of Power (Chile)
5) The Guardians of the Forest (Brasil)
6) Women's Medicine (Colombia)
7) The Law of Reciprocity (Bolivia)
8) Resistance starts here (Mexico)
9) The syncretic Purification (Mexico)
10) Expression of Tenderness (Paraguay)
11) People of Tobacco, Coca and sweet Yucca (Colombia)
12) In Search of Enjoyment (Mexico)
In the Peruvian Andes Mountains, 5000 meters above sea level live the Q’eros: the last Inca people. Adrián Huamán, a young messenger, makes a pilgrimage with 40,000 indigenous people from different...
Ancestral Secrets (Ep 01: Sowing a Dream)
On Easter Island they prepare to celebrate the most important festival of the year: La Tapati. An ancient Polynesian ritual of dance, song and competition. But for the first time in decades, this...
Ancestral Secrets (Ep 02: Back to the Origin)
Tata Pablo is a Mayan spiritual guide. He and his community will perform the Waqxakib ‘B’at, fulfilling the Mayan prophecy: the beginning of the cycle of opening our eyes and showing the worlds their...
Ancestral Secrets (Ep 03: The perfect Balance)
Edmundo Pacheco is “Amauta”: an expert in medicine and a spiritual guide. He is heir to one of the largest cultures in South America: the Aymara, who inhabit the Andean highlands. He lives in La Paz...
Ancestral Secrets (Ep 07: The Law of Reciprocity)
Carlos Águila Tellez is an apprentice shaman. He visits the coast of the State of Oaxaca in Mexico to perform the winter solstice rite. For this he travels to the mountains, to meet the old Zapotec...
Ancestral Secrets (Ep 12: In Search of Enjoyment)
On Easter Island they prepare to celebrate the Tapati festival. An ancient Polynesian ritual of dance, song and competition. But for the first time in decades, this event will have no tourists. The...
Ancestral Secrets (Ep 2: In the extreme South of America)
Central America is one of the most prominent places for indigenous medicine in the entire world. This region was called Mesoamerica, due to its vast cultural development. Like the Mayan and Zapotec...
Ancestral Secrets (Ep 3: Mesoamerica)
In southern Latin America, high in the Andes Mountains, a secret has been kept for centuries. Medicinal practices cultivated by the inheriting communities of an unknown ancestral knowledge. The peaks...
Ancestral Secrets (Ep 1: In the Heights of the Andes Mountains)
In the Andes Mountains in southern Chile, surrounded by wild vegetation and mighty rivers, the Pewenche defy time and modernity to preserve their sacred tree: the Araucaria. They do it through...
Ancestral Secrets (Ep 04: The Handover of Power)
In the State of Acre, along the Envira River, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, submerged in the humidity, the sun and the rain of the jungle, the “men who smoke” connect with their sacred tree...
Ancestral Secrets (Ep 05: The Guardians of the Forest)
One of the oldest cultures in America is preparing to celebrate the day of the Virgin of Guadalupe. It might seem like a contradiction: that indigenous people celebrate a Catholic virgin. But it is a...
Ancestral Secrets (Ep 09: The syncretic Purification)
In the Guajira peninsula, on the Caribbean Sea - north of Colombia - the Wayuu keep their ancestral secrets in the hands of women. They still keep alive the tradition of Sutapaulu, a period in which...
Ancestral Secrets (Ep 06: Women's Medicine)
Laurie French is Lakota. A geopolitical line between the United States and Mexico separates her family. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, she decides to cross the border to the lands where her...
Ancestral Secrets (Ep 08: Resistance starts here)
The Mbyás are a branch of the Guaraní people, who live in Paraguay. The reduction, disappearance, and contamination of their spaces as a result of transnational soybean cultivation have them under...
Ancestral Secrets (Ep 10: Expression of Tenderness)
The Negedeka family lives in a traditional maloca in the center of the Colombian Amazon. In 2020, the two grandparents who guide the community die as a result of the global pandemic. For two nights...
Ancestral Secrets (Ep 11: People of Tobacco, Coca and Sweet Yucca)
The heart of South America hides a secret. Behind the thick vegetation and mighty rivers, indigenous communities preserve their ancestral knowledge. In the Brazilian Amazon, the Huni Kuin cultivate...
Ancestral Secrets (Ep 4: In the Heart of South America)
In Colombia - the northernmost territory of South America - navigators, conquerors, and pirates searched for “El Dorado” for centuries. A treasure that legend said was the most exuberant wealth on the...
Ancestral Secrets (Ep 5: El Dorado)
North America is a rugged territory. The sun does not give truce in a desert with conflicting border lines. But indigenous communities have managed to survive this scenario. And secretly preserve...
Ancestral Secrets (Ep 6: North America)
Directed by
Jota Loyola Crovetto
Producer
La Ventana Cine
Country
Chile / Colombia
Languages
Spanish / (English Subtitles)
Available
Worldwide (Except Colombia and Mexico)
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