“Directors Leonor Caraballo and Matteo Norzi film [the film’s] surroundings with an ecstatic stillness, and they capture the medicinally induced hallucinations with a visual imagination of rare specificity and fury.”
— Richard Brody,
“…a strong and strange new film that combines the unknown with the very relatable search to actually know anything.”
— Kate Erbland,
“Bolstered by a naturalistic soundscape...It strikes a mood that’s at once sad and cautiously hopeful, and never less than transfixing.”
— Nick Schager,
Highlights of Tribeca Film Festival's Closing Week:
“A very personal film”
— Steve Dollar,
ABOUT THE FILM
LONG SYNOPSIS
Looking for a miracle, Angelina lands at a healing center in the Peruvian Amazon where shamans minister to a group of foreign psychonauts seeking transcendence, companionship, and the secrets of life and death. Her perceptions altered by the ancient psychedelic plant known as ayahuasca, she bonds with Arturo, a young indigenous shaman who is losing his eyesight. In their hallucinogenic journeys together they attain a different sense of their destinies. She learns to accept her fears while Arturo, in turn, realizes that he will be able to see in the dark and sing his ceremonial healing songs, the icaros.
Filmmakers Leonor Caraballo and Matteo Norzi have deftly handled this drama by drawing from their own experiences, allowing for a uniquely stirring film that touches on the notions of friendship, familial bonds, and the fear of the unknown. Visually inventive and hypnotic in nature, Icaros: A Vision captivates with its meditative look at a little-seen world, punctuated by truly trippy depictions of ceremonial splendor.
Writers Leonor Caraballo, Matteo Norzi, Abou Farman
Producer Abou Farman
Co-Producer Adella Ladjevardi
Editor Èlia Gasull Balada
Cinematographer Ghasem Ebrahimian
Sound Tom Paul
Cast Ana Cecilia Stieglitz, Arturo Izquierdo, Filippo Timi
FESTIVALS
2016: Tribeca
FESTIVAL TERRITORIES
The World
EXHIBITION FORMATS
DCP, Blu-Ray, DVD
PRESS KIT
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