BALIAN (The Healer)
Directed by Daniel McGuire
What happens when a traditional healer is discovered by the global village?
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Overview
- Genre
- Anthropology, Foreign Worlds, Adventure, Personal Doc, and Supernatural
- Synopsis
A film shot over 20 years, BALIAN (The Healer) depicts the rise and fall of a traditional Balinese healer after being 'discovered' by Western tourists. A fable of globalization that Alan Berliner calls “a magical portrait of a one-of-a-kind trickster/healer. It’s funny, too.”
- Stage
- finished
- Running time
- 87 minutes
Credits
- Daniel McGuire ... Director, DOP, Producer
Production Details
- Country
- Indonesia
- Years of Production
- 1996-2016
- Locations
- Bali, Indonesia, USA
Distribution Details
- Release year
- 2019
- Festivals
- Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, NHdocs: the New Haven Documentary Film Festival , DOCfeed - Documentary Festival Eindhoven, Ethnografilm Paris, American Documentary And Animation Film Festival and Film Fund, Santa Cruz Film Festival, Film Fest 52,
- Awards
- Best New England Documentary, Best Character
- Distribution
- seeking distributor
- Language
- Balinese, Indonesian, English
- Subtitles
- English
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