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Jiíbie
Jiíbie
5.6
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9 Ratings

JIÍBIE

Directed by Laura Huertas Millán
Colombia, France, 2019
Short, Documentary, Avant-Garde

Synopsis

The elaboration ritual of a green coca powder (called mambe or Jíibie) unveils an ancestral myth of kinship. In the Muina-Muruí Amazonian community the coca plant is not a product, but a sacred interlocutor, the beating heart of a collective body.

Synopsis

The elaboration ritual of a green coca powder (called mambe or Jíibie) unveils an ancestral myth of kinship. In the Muina-Muruí Amazonian community the coca plant is not a product, but a sacred interlocutor, the beating heart of a collective body.