Healing Movies

This documentary examines ayahuasca shamanism near Iquitos (a metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon),and the tourism it has attracted. The filmmakers tal...

The villagers of El Dorado, Argentina, shy away from doctors. Then again, they hardly need one. They have almost as many cures for ailments and illnes...

American Gospel explores the core question of Christianity, 'What is the gospel?' Through the distorting lens of American culture.

In this film, you meet the woman who wakes up every day and proclaims her love for everyone and everything in her path, the woman who popularized “aff...

In this coming-of-age story, a once-close mother-daughter relationship takes a tumultuous turn as they navigate the challenging journey of growing up....

On the threshold of her old age, Dolores faces a wall full of memories.

Two brothers, separated by time and prison bars, reestablish contact. Inspired by James Baldwin's short story, 'Sonny's Blues.'

Lucia must find new meaning in her life in order to move forward after a suicide attempt.Dealing with her grief over the death of her son,she establis...

Documentary about the Holy Angels Residential School in Alberta, where hundreds of First Nations children were imprisoned.

A poetic exploration of the multi-generational affects of Canada's Indian Residential School system, based on the personal trials of Aboriginal playwr...

Ayurveda is a science of life and a healing art, where body, mind and spirit are given equal importance. This voyage of thousands of miles across Indi...

Nico's father, with whom he has a distant relationship, comes to town for medical reasons. Nico must hide his homosexuality in addition to his new lif...

An isolated onion tries to understand the meaning of self-preservation.

A geologist, Sarah Portico, travels to a remote island to investigate an environmental mystery. Upon her arrival, she experiences strange visions, dre...

Tchai is the word used by Ju/'hoansi to describe getting together to dance and sing; n/um can be translated as medicine, or supernatural potency. In t...

Stay inside all the time? Never take your shoes off? Feel fatigued? You could have Natural Deficit Disorder. Learn how the earth can help neutralize t...

This film depicts the battle of a man with miraculous bass fishing skills. Rei Kurokami, also known as the "Bass Eraser", stands up to restore the lak...

This documentary introduces viewers to qigong, a 5,000-year-old method of cultivating and circulating the life energy called qi. It relates some of th...

When a man on the brink of divorce is sent to a world outside of time, he must fight to retrieve a magical watch to get back home.