Shipibo Konibo - A Rite Of Passage

A Film by Willem Malten
Narrated by Gene Hackman
Original Score by Correo Aero and the Mahua Shamans

Shipibo-Konibo is a journey into the heart of the Amazonian rain forest but also
a metaphorical journey, an exploration of Shamanic states of mind. The Mahua
Shamans invite us to partake in Ayahuasca for healing and telepathic communion.

It was the Shaman’s plan to revive the tribal ‘Aneshiati’ ritual one last time.
During the ceremony the entire cultural heritage of the Shipibo-Konibo: dances,
songs, drinks, clothing and ceramics come alive around a Rite of Passage.

Shipibo-Konibo is about the narrow passage between the mind and the forest,
the male and the female, the profane and the sacred, the raw and the cooked. It
is about the meeting between ‘us’ and ‘them’, a realization of innocence and loss
of it and yet, finding unexpected hope for humankind.