Icaros: A Vision

– In search of a miracle, an American woman embarks on a journey to the Peruvian Amazon and finds hope..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.80 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 31 Minutes
Release Year:
2016
Icaros: A Vision (2016)

In search of a miracle, an American woman embarks on a journey to the Peruvian Amazon and finds hope in a community, through rituals involving an ancient psychedelic plant known as ayahuasca. With her perception forever altered, she forges a bond with a young indigenous shaman undergoing a crisis of his own, and a motley crew of psychonauts seeking transcendence, companionship, and the meaning of life and death.

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Genre:

Icaros: A Vision (2016) - Trailer

Release Date:

19 May 2017

Language:

English, Spanish

Director:

Leonor Caraballo, Matteo Norzi

Writer:

Leonor Caraballo, Matteo Norzi, Abou Farman

Main Actors:

Ana Cecilia Stieglitz, Filippo Timi, Arturo Izquierdo, Guillermo Arévalo

Plot:

Her medical options exhausted, an American woman embarks on a journey to the Peruvian Amazon in search of a miracle. She lands at a healing center where shamans minister to a group of foreign psychonauts seeking transcendence, companionship, and the secrets of life and death. Her perceptions forever altered by the ancient psychedelic plant known as ayahuasca, she forges a bond with a young indigenous shaman who is undergoing a crisis of his own: he is losing his eyesight. In their visionary journeys together they attain a different sense of their destinies. She learns to accept her fears while, in turn, he realizes that he will be able to see in the dark and sing his ceremonial healing songs, the icaros.

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations.

Gross profit:

$5,510

Production:

Factory 25

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
Metacritic:
77%