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Ex-Shaman

Ex-Shaman

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 17, 2018

Runtime

1h 21m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

68%

Original Title

Ex Pajé

Director

Luiz Bolognesi

Description

Ever since their first contact with the Western world in 1969 the Paiter Suruí, an indigenous people living in the Amazon basin, have been exposed to sweeping social changes. Smartphones, gas, electricity, medicines, weapons and social media have now replaced their traditional way of life. Illness is a risk for a community increasingly unable to isolate itself from the modernization brought by white people or the power of the church. Ethnocide threatens to destroy their soul. With dogged persistence, Perpera, a former shaman, is searching for a way to restore the old vitality to his village.