The Last Shaman(2017)

1h 17m

Release Date: May 12, 2017 | Limited

James gives himself 12 months before he has 'a license to kill himself', he sets off to the amazon rainforest with hopes of finding a shaman who can save his life.

Releases

Original Release | May 12, 2017

Box Office

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$6,799
Total US & Canada:
$17,844
Total Worldwide:
$17,844

Director & Top Cast

Raz Degan
Director

Danny A. Abeckaser

Other Details

Country of Origin: United Kingdom,Italy,Israel,United States,Germany

Language: English,Spanish

Showtimes

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Summaries

Storyline

James is an all American boy whose promising life is brought to a halt by acute depression. Turning his back on the most progressive western treatments and medicines, James discovers ayahuasca in search of healing in the Peruvian jungle. Over the course of 10 months venturing from Shaman to Shaman, James finds friendship, answers and a kind of redemption hidden deep in the Peruvian amazon. James is an all American boy who lives an all American life with a promising future ahead of him except for the fact that James has a disease, he suffers from clinical depression. Due to the fact that his own society could not answer his questions nor solve his problems James has no choice but to save his own life, one day while hospitalized in a mental institute James comes across an article in the national geographic about the shamans of Peru and there way of healing all kind of diseases including clinical depression through the use of Ayahuasca. He travels to the Amazon rain forest with one mission at hand, saving his life, James most abandon all he knows, adapted himself to a new couture which he practically knows nothing of while searching for a shaman who can help him save his life, along his journey James will need to overcome different challenges on his road towards finding redemption and at the same time face the consequences of his actions.