The film portrays an Amazonian family who works and communicates with plants in order to help Peruvian and foreign people. In their garden, the family cultivates medicinal plants to heal and protect against negative energy. During the night, in a ceremony, they communicate with the ‘mother of all plants’, Ayahuasca, who provides information on how to further help other people. With patience, the filmmaker learns how plants, animals and humans work together in this garden.
Mark Lindenberg
Mark Lindenberg is a filmmaker and visual ethnographer interested in making films that make the audience have a feeling of being there, stepping into a world unknown. He graduated as a cinematographer at the AHK – Filmacademy Amsterdam and combines his skills with his master study Visual Ethnography at Leiden University to make the ‘strange’ become understandable and familiar.