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Her medical options exhausted, an American woman travels to the Amazon in search of a miracle. Thanks to a young ayahuasca shaman who is losing his eyesight, she learns instead to confront her ‘susto’: the disease of fear.Centered on the nightly ceremonies that are the main feature of shamanic retreats, Icaros revels in darkness, replicating a shamanic journey. The film mixes in elements of reality. Set in an actual Ayahuasca retreat in Peru, it features real shamans and indigenous non-actors from the Shipibo community, mixed in with western actors.

Aspects of the film are based on co-director Leonor Caraballo’s true experiences. She had metastatic breast cancer when the shoot began. Although she dedicated herself to the project until the very end, sadly she died before she could see the film finished.

Icaros: a Vision is a filmic tapestry about the meeting of cultures, a West in search of its lost soul and the indigenous Shipibo adapting their expansive practices and unique view of the universe.

Director MATTEO NORZI (below)

Director MATTEO NORZI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“This trippy work maps the intersections of West and East, body and spirit, faith and terror with beguiling grace.” Peter Debruge, Variety

“the filmmakers portray the films surroundings with an ecstatic stillness and they capture the medicinally induced hallucinations with a visual imagination of rare specificity and fury.’ – The New Yorker