INVISIBLE FOREST (WT)

The rainforest is home to a natural wealth. Scientists believe we only tracked a third of the rainforest’s biodiversity. This should be enough to certify its potential and protection. Instead, deforestation advances without mercy every year, and as a result, ancestral knowledge has been disappearing more and more.

Leticia Yawanawa, an indigenous female leader, will spearhead a mystical journey in which shamans come together to share and catalog medical knowledge about powerful healing plants in order to affirm not only the importance of forest conservation but to also collate all of the unknown knowledge based on it.

For the first time ever, they will organize knowledge empirically, thus guaranteeing its survival for future generations. For centuries, all knowledge was only shared orally, inside each tribe. So if one dies or a tribe becomes extinct, knowledge fades away. Leticia will shift this reality forever with a journey through the rainforest filled with medical plants and spiritual experiences. Shamans will share with her all their secrets, reveal their native knowledge that is struggling due to cultural colonialism. During this process, she will build what she calls a “Healing Center” to keep this knowledge alive. The “Healing Center” will be built in her village in order to gather all the knowledge collected and to make it accessible to all people. On its surrounding, a garden will concentrate the plants listed in the Center, functioning as a “traditional native drugstore”.