I slutningen af 1800-tallet får operafantasten Fitzcarraldo en vision om, at han skal bygge et operahus dybt inde i Amazonas regnskov. Alle undtagen hans tro følgesvend, bordelmutteren Molly, anser ham for at være gal. Men Fitzcarraldo begiver sig sejrssikkert ind i junglen ombord på et gammelt rustent dampskib. Han støder dog på noget af en forhindring, da et bjerg ligger mellem ham og hans drøm. For at nå sit mål bestemmer han sig for at slæbe hele båden over bjerget.
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.
A documentary short about a town floating on a river in Iquitos, Peru.
Don Emilio is a humble, 63-year-old man who lives in the Amazon rainforest, seven miles from the city of Iquitos, Peru. For all of his adult life he has worked as a curandero and vegetalista, a traditional healer. He estimates that in his career he has treated more than 2,500 clients. Through the camera lens of anthropologist Luis Eduardo Luna, Don Emilio tells us about his practice, his beliefs, his community, and his life. He shows us how he prepares ayahuasca and other herbal medicines. Finally, we see Don Emilio treat a man who has come to him for help, and hear from a poor woman who has brought her infant son for medical care.
This documentary examines ayahuasca shamanism near Iquitos (a metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon), and the tourism it has attracted. The filmmakers talk with two ayahuasqueros, Percy Garcia and Ron Wheelock, as well as ayuahuasca tourists and local people connected with the ayahuasca industry.
Los Fabulosos Wembler's de Iquitos are a mythical Amazonian cumbia band from Iquitos with more than half a century of history that fights to prevail in their hometown and in Peru, while being widely recognized abroad.